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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

By Elliott Currie
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By Elliott Currie
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Named a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews

“A smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . This is not a Black crisis but a national emergency.” —The New York Times Book Review

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 ha...

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