Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality. By Sarah Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 231 pp. $34.95 cloth.

• Published date: 01 March 2015
• Date: 01 March 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12129

this aspect of police stops, the authors contribute to research on of

legal attitudes and consciousness.

My only substantive criticism of the project relates to the

reform proposal. The pragmatic approach the text advocates

prompted the question: Why in our ostensibly postrace era does

society lack the courage to fully disrupt institutionalized racist

practices? The answer likely turns on the “fear of too much

justice” line from Justice Brennan’s dissent in McCleskey v. Kemp

(1987). While Pulled Over provides no answer, it affirms the rele-

vance of the question. I commend it to all scholars interested in

meaningfully engaging the myriad and complex ways that police

stops affect racial identity and conceptions of citizenship.

References

Barnes, Mario L (2006) “Black Women’s Stories and the Criminal Law: Restating the

Power of Narrative,” 36 UC Davis Law Rev. 941–89.

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omez, Laura E (2012) “Looking for Race in All the Wrong Places,” 46 Law & Society

Rev.221–45.

Obasogie, Osagie K (2006) “Race in Law and Society: A Critique,” in Lopez, Ian Haney,

ed., Race, Law and Society. Burlington, VT:Ashgate Publishing Company.

Peffley, Mark & Jon Hurwitz (2010) Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and

Whites. New York:Cambridge University.

Cases Cited

McCleskey v. Kemp,481 U.S. 279 (1987).

Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996).

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Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of

American Inequality. By Sarah Wakefield and Christopher

Wildeman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 231 pp.

$34.95 cloth.

Reviewed by Aziz Z. Huq, Law School, University of Chicago

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