Ray Von Robertson holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Robertson is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent book is The Plight of Students of Color at Predominantly White Institutions: A Critical Reader. Dr. Robertson has published scholarly works on critical race theory, police brutality, birthing options for African-American women, boxing, students of color at PWIs, and the Black Seminoles. He is a member of the Association of Black Sociologists, National Association of African-American Studies, and the National Council for Black Studies as well as an editorial board member for the Journal of Pan African Studies.

Blacks Behind Bars: African-Americans, Police, and the Prison Boom offers contemporary and highly critical analyses of the Black penal reality. This book is an excellent pick for critical criminology, punishment and corrections, and race and crime courses. With the advent of Ferguson and the uprising within urban communities against vicious police brutality and mass incarceration in the age of Obama, this book provides a medium within which researchers, students, policy-makers, practitioners, and knowledge-seekers may matriculate to understand racialized punishment in America." —Jason M. Williams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Ray Von Robertson holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Robertson is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent book is The Plight of Students of Color at Predominantly White Institutions: A Critical Reader. Dr. Robertson has published scholarly works on critical race theory, police brutality, birthing options for African-American women, boxing, students of color at PWIs, and the Black Seminoles. He is a member of the Association of Black Sociologists, National Association of African-American Studies, and the National Council for Black Studies as well as an editorial board member for the Journal of Pan African Studies.

Blacks Behind Bars: African-Americans, Police, and the Prison Boom offers contemporary and highly critical analyses of the Black penal reality. This book is an excellent pick for critical criminology, punishment and corrections, and race and crime courses. With the advent of Ferguson and the uprising within urban communities against vicious police brutality and mass incarceration in the age of Obama, this book provides a medium within which researchers, students, policy-makers, practitioners, and knowledge-seekers may matriculate to understand racialized punishment in America." —Jason M. Williams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Ray Von Robertson holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Robertson is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent book is The Plight of Students of Color at Predominantly White Institutions: A Critical Reader. Dr. Robertson has published scholarly works on critical race theory, police brutality, birthing options for African-American women, boxing, students of color at PWIs, and the Black Seminoles. He is a member of the Association of Black Sociologists, National Association of African-American Studies, and the National Council for Black Studies as well as an editorial board member for the Journal of Pan African Studies.

Blacks Behind Bars: African-Americans, Police, and the Prison Boom offers contemporary and highly critical analyses of the Black penal reality. This book is an excellent pick for critical criminology, punishment and corrections, and race and crime courses. With the advent of Ferguson and the uprising within urban communities against vicious police brutality and mass incarceration in the age of Obama, this book provides a medium within which researchers, students, policy-makers, practitioners, and knowledge-seekers may matriculate to understand racialized punishment in America." —Jason M. Williams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Fairleigh Dickinson University