Title:
Locking up our own : crime and punishment in black America
Author:
Edition:
First paperback edition.
Publication Date:
2018
2017
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
©2017
Physical Description:
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.
Contents:
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.
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Language:
English
