Locking up our own : crime and punishment in black America

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Titel:

Persönlicher Verfasser:

Forman, James, 1967- author.

GVPL_EDITION:

First paperback edition.

PUBDATE:

2018

2017

GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Physische Beschreibung:

306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780374537449

Abstract:

"Recounts the tragic role that some African Americans--as judges, prosecutors, politicians, police officers, and voters--played in escalating the war on crime"-- Provided by publisher.

Inhalte:

Origins. Gateway to the war on drugs : marijuana, 1975 ; Black lives matter : gun control, 1975 ; Representatives of their race : the rise of African American police, 1948-78 -- Consequences. "Locking up thugs is not vindictive" : sentencing, 1981-82 ; "The worst thing to hit us since slavery" : crack and the advent of warrior policing, 1988-92 ; What would Martin Luther King, Jr., say? : stop and search, 1995 -- The reach of our mercy, 2014-16.

Schlagwortbegriff:

Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.

Life and death, Power over.

African American judges.

African American politicians.

African American police.

Social justice -- United States.

Geographischer Begriff:

United States -- Race relations.

LANGUAGE:

Englisch