Write a paper that focus on the racial disparity within America criminal justice system. This should include the fair sentencing act, the public's perception of who commits crime, war on drugs, etc.

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2. Mauer, M. (2004). Race, class, and the development of criminal justice policy. Review of Policy Research, 21(1), 79-92. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1541-1338

3. Oliver, M. B. (2003). African American men as "criminal and dangerous": Implications of media portrayals of crime on the "criminalization" of African American men. Journal of African American Studies, 7(2), 3-18. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/

4. Robinson, M. (2000). The construction and reinforcement of myths of race and crime. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 16(2), 133-156. Retrieved from http://ccj.sagepub.com/

5. Roh S., & Robinson, M. (2009). A geographic approach to racial profiling: The microanalysis and macroanalysis of racial disparity in traffic stops. Policy Quarterly, 12(2), 137-169.Retrieved from http://pqx.sagepub.com/

6. The Sentencing Project. (2012, May 18). Trends in U.S. corrections. Retrieved November 1,2012, from http://www.sentencingprojectorg/detai/news/cfm?news_id-1304.

7. Weaver, V. M. (2007). Frontlash: Race and the development of punitive crime policy. Studies in American Political Development, 21(2), 230-265. Retrieved October 1, 2012 from http://www.ebonterr.comisite_editor/assets/ERONTERR_41.pdf

8. Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are prisons obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press.

9. Coker, D. (2003). Addressing the real world of racial injustice in the criminal justice system. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 93(4), 827-880. Retrieved from the JSTOR database.