Comprehensive and balanced, THE COLOR OF JUSTICE: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND CRIME IN AMERICA is the definitive introduction to current research and theories of racial and ethnic discrimination within America's criminal justice system. The sixth edition covers the best and the most recent research on patterns of criminal behavior and victimization, immigration and crime, drug use, police practices, court processing and sentencing, unconscious bias, the death penalty, and correctional programs, giving students the facts and theoretical foundation they need to make their own informed decisions about discrimination within the system. Uniquely unbiased, THE COLOR OF JUSTICE makes every effort to incorporate discussion of all major race groups found in the United States. What’s more, the MindTap® that accompanies this text helps students practice and master techniques and key concepts while engaging them with, career-based decision-making scenarios, visual summaries, and more.

1. Race, Ethnicity, and Crime: The Present Crisis.
2. Victims and Offenders: Myths and Realities About Crime.
3. Race, Ethnicity, Social Structure, and Crime.
4. Justice on the Street? The Police and Minorities.
5. The Courts: A Quest for Justice During the Pre-Trial Process.
6. Justice on the Bench? Trial and Adjudication in Adult and Juvenile Court.
7. Race and Sentencing: In Search of Fairness and Justice.
8. The Color of Death: Race and the Death Penalty.
9. Corrections: A Picture in Black and White.
10. Minority Youth and the Criminal Justice System.
11. The Color of Justice.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.

Comprehensive and balanced, THE COLOR OF JUSTICE: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND CRIME IN AMERICA is the definitive introduction to current research and theories of racial and ethnic discrimination within America's criminal justice system. The sixth edition covers the best and the most recent research on patterns of criminal behavior and victimization, immigration and crime, drug use, police practices, court processing and sentencing, unconscious bias, the death penalty, and correctional programs, giving students the facts and theoretical foundation they need to make their own informed decisions about discrimination within the system. Uniquely unbiased, THE COLOR OF JUSTICE makes every effort to incorporate discussion of all major race groups found in the United States. What’s more, the MindTap® that accompanies this text helps students practice and master techniques and key concepts while engaging them with, career-based decision-making scenarios, visual summaries, and more. Updated arrest information includes data on Hispanics for the first time. Hate crime data is also updated. New and revised content presents the latest information on gangs (including a new section on outlaw motorcycle gangs), an updated drug use section, a new section on cold-case civil rights investigation, recent data on skin tone bias in policing and sentencing, and many other recent developments. The new MindTap® for the text offers customizable content, course analytics, an e-reader, and an applied learning experience -- all within your current learning management system. MindTap® prepares students to make the kinds of reasoned, real-world decisions they will need to make as future professionals. With its rich array of assets -- all of which are tagged by learning objective and Bloom's Taxonomy level -- MindTap® is perfectly suited for today's Criminal Justice students, engaging them, guiding them toward mastery of basic concepts, and advancing their critical thinking abilities. Rather than focus exclusively on one or two specific minority groups, the authors strive to discuss a wide variety of racial minorities -- Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, and others -- to give students a more complete perspective. "In the Courts" boxes in most chapters provide an in-depth examination of a recent court case. In addition to thorough coverage of racial issues in the courts and law enforcement, the text also includes a thorough discussion of community-based and institutional corrections. Valuable learning tools to help students master the material include instructive figures and tables, chapter goals and conclusions, and informative boxed material.