The book investigates patterns of criminal behavior and victimization and covers the experiences of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. The starting point for the book is the overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in the criminal justice system. It is presented in nine chapters: (1) The Present Crisis, which includes discussion of racial and ethnic categories and the politics of such labels; race and IQ; the impact of a multicultural category; the quality of criminal justice data on race and ethnicity; the geography of racial and ethnic justice; the discrimination-disparity continuum; and a theoretical perspective on race, ethnicity, and crime; (2) Victims and Offenders: Myths and Realities About Crime; (3) Race, Ethnicity, Social Structure, and Crime; (4) Justice on the Street? Police and Minorities; (5) The Courts: A Case of Unequal Justice; (6) Race and Sentencing: In Search of Fairness and Justice; (7) The Color of Death: Race and the Death Penalty; (8) Corrections: A Picture in Black and White; and (9) The Color of Justice. Figures, tables, notes, selected bibliography, index