TY - BOOK ID - 137382047 TI - Crime and racial constructions PY - 2010 SN - 1282495933 9786612495939 0739145215 9780739145210 9780739125915 0739125915 9780739145210 9781282495937 6612495936 PB - Lanham, Md. Lexington Books DB - UniCat KW - African Americans in motion pictures. KW - African American women in motion pictures. KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. KW - Violence in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures KW - Racism in popular culture KW - Crime and race KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Race relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137382047 AB - Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia critically examines how the film industry and criminologists have constructed African Americans in their effort to explain observed race differences in crime. Of particular concern is how the images they paint of violent, out-of-control blacks result in hardline criminal justice policies. ER -