ISBN:
9780230273818
,
9780230273801
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 263 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
22 cm
Series Statement:
American history in depth
DDC:
364.3/496073
Keywords:
Punishment History
;
Crime History
;
Discrimination in justice administration History
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Crime and race
;
United States
;
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
;
United States
;
African Americans
;
Violence against
;
African American criminals
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Strafjustiz
;
Rassendiskriminierung
Description / Table of Contents:
AcknowledgementsList of illustrations -- Introduction -- Slavery to freedom -- The slaveholders' rule -- Slavery and the criminal law -- Reconstruction -- Jim Crow justice -- The southern penal system -- Lynching and law -- Crime and policing in the northern city -- Civil rights and beyond -- The black freedom struggle -- The penal state -- Epilogue: remembrance, justice, and reconciliation -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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