Abstract
The problem of the underclass is indisputably the dirtiest little secret of the criminal justice system, nationwide. It isn’t politically correct even to refer to it, because it plays into the hands of racists to offer such evidence of black “inferiority” as high unemployment, early death, imprisonment, addiction, dropout rates, infant mortality, teenage pregnancies, poverty and welfare rates, low educational achievement, disintegrated family structures, and lack of visibility in corporate, political, and professional organizations or in academe’s halls.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
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Bouza, A.V. (1993). Racism. In: How to Stop Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6483-0_6
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