Black Lives Matter: Disproportionate Minority Contact

This book discusses race crime policy ethics and justice in regards to the phenomena of disproportionate minority contact by police officers which are the gatekeepers to the criminal justice system overall. America is experiencing a social phenomena where we are witnessing a disproportionate number of African American men women and children being sentenced to jail and prison. However statistics provided in this book posit that these groups of individuals more likely to be sentenced to jail and prison for lengthier amounts of time than any other race combined due to racism social inequality hegemony trivial stop-and-frisk procedures as well as poor policing and stereotypical misconceptions regarding African Americans and their propensity to commit violent crimes.