The definition of criminal justice is: the system of law enforcement, the bar, the judiciary, corrections and probation that is directly involved in the apprehension, prosecution, defense, sentencing, incarceration and supervision of those suspected of or charged with criminal offenses. Throughout history we have seen this system bend and break in many areas because of the issue of race. Randall Kennedy gives a detailed and descriptive vision on how far this system has failed to equally protect the rights of individuals based on race.
Being a history major I have read many different accounts from pre-civil war era on to the present, but these studies only gave a broad description on slavery and civil rights movements and barely ever went into detail on the unequal protection of the law that African Americans faced. I believe that we should have the knowledge of how our criminal justice system has failed so many throughout the past based simply on the color of their skin. Kennedy......
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