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A Peculiar Indifference audiobook
- By: Elliott Currie
- Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Category: African American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Social Science
- Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 15, 2020
- Language: English
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A Peculiar Indifference Audiobook Summary
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injustice
About 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a fifteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Even black women suffer violent death at a higher rate than white men, despite homicide’s usual gender patterns. Yet while the country has been rightly outraged by the recent spate of police killings of black Americans, the shocking amount of “everyday” violence that plagues African American communities receives far less attention, and has nearly disappeared as a target of public policy.
As acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie makes clear, this pervasive violence is a direct result of the continuing social and economic marginalization of many black communities in America. Those conditions help perpetuate a level of preventable trauma and needless suffering that has no counterpart anywhere in the developed world. Compelling and accessible, drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research, A Peculiar Indifference describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency, explains its causes, and offers an urgent plea for long-overdue social action to end it.
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A Peculiar Indifference Audiobook Narrator
Sean Patrick Hopkins is the narrator of A Peculiar Indifference audiobook that was written by Elliott Currie
Elliott Currie is the author of Crime and Punishment in America, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and numerous other acclaimed works on crime and criminal justice. He is a professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine.
About the Author(s) of A Peculiar Indifference
Elliott Currie is the author of A Peculiar Indifference
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A Peculiar Indifference Full Details
| Narrator | Sean Patrick Hopkins |
| Length | 6 hours 47 minutes |
| Author | Elliott Currie |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | September 15, 2020 |
| ISBN | 9781250772459 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Peculiar Indifference is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is African American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Social Science
Additional info
The publisher of the A Peculiar Indifference is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250772459.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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