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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Kristin Henning, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth" (Pantheon Books, 2021)
Description: Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience repÂresenting Black youth in Washington, D.C.'s juveÂnile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America's irrational, manufactured fears of these young peoÂple and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children.Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of racÂism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who...