Race Crime and the Law
BOOK REVIEW Title: Race, Crime and the Law, by Randall Kennedy. Randall Kennedy is a Princeton undergrad who went to Yale Law school, to Oxford as a Rhode Scholar, and to Harvard to become a law professor. He also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Where Randall stands in this field: That race relation plays a role in punishment of criminals, especially African Americans. ... He also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using race criteria in jury selection. Further more, he analyzes the response of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendering trials unfair; examines the idea that, under certain circumstance, members of one race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime that members of another race are not.