Friedman, M. Lawrence.
Crime and Punishment in American History.
New York, NY: BasicBooks, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. This book provides a general history of the American criminal justice system from its beginning in the seventeenth century to the present time.
Kaplan, John and Jerome H. Skolnick.
Criminal Justice: Introductory and Materials. 3rd ed.
Mineola, New York: Foundation Press, 1982. This book details how our justice system actually works. It uses actual cases to illustrate at times how different segments of our judicial system works.
Lynch, J. Michael and E. Britt Patterson, eds.
Race and Criminal Justice.
New York: Harrow and Heston Publishers, 1991. There are two chapters in this book that I found very useful in preparing my unit. They were entitled ‘Bias in Formalized Bail Procedures written by E. Britt Patterson and Michael J. Lynch and ‘Race ant the Death Penalty in the United States‘ written by Robert Bohm. These works contained important statistics and opinions concerning the justice system and minorities that I found valuable.
Mann, Richey Cormae.
Unequal Justice: A Question of Color.
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. Chapter 5 Unequal Justice: A Question of Color‘ presents an excellent overview of how minorities are treated by different segments of the U.S. justice system. I relied heavily on this text/chapter for information presented in my unit.
*Throughout my unit I have cited many research studies. Each study I cited was contained in two books I have listed in my bibliography. They were either cited from
Unequal Justice: A Question of Color
or
Race and Criminal Justice.
At the time of each citing I listed the year and the name of the researchers who conducted the research. For any further information concerning these research studies please check the bibliographies of these texts.