The Book Prize Index

Race, Crime, and the Law

Randall Kennedy

The author, a Harvard law professor, discusses the "failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals ... the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection ... the responses of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendered trials unfairs ... and allegations that blacks are victimized on a widespread basis by racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments."--Jacket.

Race & EthnicityRace & Ethnicity · high confidenceRace & Ethnicity81 signalsLlm Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: Civil rights -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: African Americans -> Race & EthnicityCrime, Policing & ViolenceCourts & TrialsLaw & Legal Change

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award1998Co-winnerOfficial source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestMajor1997FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    The justice system fails to protect Blacks from criminals, and race-based jury-selection criteria and racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments contribute to unfair trials.

    Model confidence 46%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    45 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 42%.