Jason M. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. His areas of expertise are, race and justice, policing, social control, radical criminology, and the sociology of criminological knowledge. In addition to publishing on the above topics he is currently conducting qualitative research on black males and reentry, urban youth and policing, and pedagogical-based research around the construction and dissemination of criminological knowledge and its impact on racialized students. Steven Kniffley is the Associate Director for the Center for Behavioral Health and an Assistant Professor in Spalding University’s School of Professional Psychology. He currently teaches Multicultural Psychology and Intro to Psychotherapy. Dr. Kniffley is also a Board Certified Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Kniffley’s area of expertise is research and clinical work with Black males. Specifically, his work focuses on understanding and developing culturally appropriate interventions for Black male psychopathology as well as barriers to academic success for this population. Dr. Kniffley has written numerous books, book chapters, and articles on Black male mental health, Black males and the criminal justice system, and academic achievement.

• Introduction; 1. Laying the Foundation of Punishment Against Black Males; 2. Black Males and their Experiences with Policing under the "Iconic Ghetto" in Ferguson, MO; 3. From Savages to Super-Predators: Race, Lynching, and The Persistence of Colonial Violence; 4. Perceptions of Black Male Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System; 5. Black Males and Courts; 6. Prison Health and Black Males; 7. Black male mental health and prison; 8. Failures of Reintegration and the Return to Prison; 9. The Racial Politics and Policies of Reentry; 10. Institutionalized Mental Trauma and Generational Transmission

By examining the plight of black males as perennial victims of state violence, this excellent collection of essays serves as a corrective for the often racist and iconic image of the black male as incorrigible criminal. Darnell F. Hawkins, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at ChicagoThese outstanding editors and brilliant authors of Black Males in the Criminal Justice System provide a definitive and compelling examination of the historical and contemporary challenges for Black males in the most draconian carceral system in the world. Few texts on the intersection of Black males and the criminal justice system illuminate such a comprehensive interdisciplinary sociological, criminological, public health, social work, public policy, and social justice approach to analyze structural violence, disproportionate minority contact, collateral consequences, and life outcomes among Black men involved in the criminal justice system. I congratulate and applaud Drs. Williams and Kniffley for their incredibly sophisticated analysis of the most pressing civil and human rights issues for Black males in the 21st century.Joseph B. Richardson Jr., PhD, Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

Jason M. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. His areas of expertise are, race and justice, policing, social control, radical criminology, and the sociology of criminological knowledge. In addition to publishing on the above topics he is currently conducting qualitative research on black males and reentry, urban youth and policing, and pedagogical-based research around the construction and dissemination of criminological knowledge and its impact on racialized students. Steven Kniffley is the Associate Director for the Center for Behavioral Health and an Assistant Professor in Spalding University’s School of Professional Psychology. He currently teaches Multicultural Psychology and Intro to Psychotherapy. Dr. Kniffley is also a Board Certified Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Kniffley’s area of expertise is research and clinical work with Black males. Specifically, his work focuses on understanding and developing culturally appropriate interventions for Black male psychopathology as well as barriers to academic success for this population. Dr. Kniffley has written numerous books, book chapters, and articles on Black male mental health, Black males and the criminal justice system, and academic achievement.

• Introduction; 1. Laying the Foundation of Punishment Against Black Males; 2. Black Males and their Experiences with Policing under the "Iconic Ghetto" in Ferguson, MO; 3. From Savages to Super-Predators: Race, Lynching, and The Persistence of Colonial Violence; 4. Perceptions of Black Male Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System; 5. Black Males and Courts; 6. Prison Health and Black Males; 7. Black male mental health and prison; 8. Failures of Reintegration and the Return to Prison; 9. The Racial Politics and Policies of Reentry; 10. Institutionalized Mental Trauma and Generational Transmission

By examining the plight of black males as perennial victims of state violence, this excellent collection of essays serves as a corrective for the often racist and iconic image of the black male as incorrigible criminal. Darnell F. Hawkins, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at ChicagoThese outstanding editors and brilliant authors of Black Males in the Criminal Justice System provide a definitive and compelling examination of the historical and contemporary challenges for Black males in the most draconian carceral system in the world. Few texts on the intersection of Black males and the criminal justice system illuminate such a comprehensive interdisciplinary sociological, criminological, public health, social work, public policy, and social justice approach to analyze structural violence, disproportionate minority contact, collateral consequences, and life outcomes among Black men involved in the criminal justice system. I congratulate and applaud Drs. Williams and Kniffley for their incredibly sophisticated analysis of the most pressing civil and human rights issues for Black males in the 21st century.Joseph B. Richardson Jr., PhD, Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

Jason M. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. His areas of expertise are, race and justice, policing, social control, radical criminology, and the sociology of criminological knowledge. In addition to publishing on the above topics he is currently conducting qualitative research on black males and reentry, urban youth and policing, and pedagogical-based research around the construction and dissemination of criminological knowledge and its impact on racialized students. Steven Kniffley is the Associate Director for the Center for Behavioral Health and an Assistant Professor in Spalding University’s School of Professional Psychology. He currently teaches Multicultural Psychology and Intro to Psychotherapy. Dr. Kniffley is also a Board Certified Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Kniffley’s area of expertise is research and clinical work with Black males. Specifically, his work focuses on understanding and developing culturally appropriate interventions for Black male psychopathology as well as barriers to academic success for this population. Dr. Kniffley has written numerous books, book chapters, and articles on Black male mental health, Black males and the criminal justice system, and academic achievement.

• Introduction; 1. Laying the Foundation of Punishment Against Black Males; 2. Black Males and their Experiences with Policing under the "Iconic Ghetto" in Ferguson, MO; 3. From Savages to Super-Predators: Race, Lynching, and The Persistence of Colonial Violence; 4. Perceptions of Black Male Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System; 5. Black Males and Courts; 6. Prison Health and Black Males; 7. Black male mental health and prison; 8. Failures of Reintegration and the Return to Prison; 9. The Racial Politics and Policies of Reentry; 10. Institutionalized Mental Trauma and Generational Transmission

By examining the plight of black males as perennial victims of state violence, this excellent collection of essays serves as a corrective for the often racist and iconic image of the black male as incorrigible criminal. Darnell F. Hawkins, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at ChicagoThese outstanding editors and brilliant authors of Black Males in the Criminal Justice System provide a definitive and compelling examination of the historical and contemporary challenges for Black males in the most draconian carceral system in the world. Few texts on the intersection of Black males and the criminal justice system illuminate such a comprehensive interdisciplinary sociological, criminological, public health, social work, public policy, and social justice approach to analyze structural violence, disproportionate minority contact, collateral consequences, and life outcomes among Black men involved in the criminal justice system. I congratulate and applaud Drs. Williams and Kniffley for their incredibly sophisticated analysis of the most pressing civil and human rights issues for Black males in the 21st century.Joseph B. Richardson Jr., PhD, Professor, University of Maryland, College Park