Racial Issues in Criminal Justice: The Case of African Americans will be published by Praeger (an imprint of Greenwood Publishers, Inc.) in their series Criminal Justice, Delinquency, and Corrections.  The series editors, Marilyn McShane and Frank Williams III, are from Prairie View A&M University.

    As editor of this book, I am interested in research that examines racial issues using a critical criminology perspective.  Both qualitative and quantitative works are welcomed and will receive equal consideration.  Although I will consider previously published materials in this area, I am primarily looking for original manuscripts.  In particular, I am interested in manuscripts that investigate the following areas:

• Racial profiling by the police. 
• Police use of excessive force in African American communities. 
• The impact of 3-strikes legislation on African Americans. 
• The impact of state sentancing guidelines on African Americans. 
• The impact of voir dire on African American representation on juries. 
• The impact of race on sentancing. 
• Is the death penalty racist? 
• Has the lowering of the age for waiver into adult court differentiall affected African American youth? 
• Is restorative justice just another form of white-based justice? 
• Will the use of drug courts further exacerbate racial disparity in prison? 
• Do African American police and/or judges make a difference? 
• Jury nullification and the over-representation of African Americans in prisons.