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Subject(s)

• Criminal justice, Administration of—United States [Browse]
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States [Browse]
• Imprisonment—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Punishment—United States [Browse]
• Race discrimination—United States [Browse]
• African American prisoners—United States [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The first civil right : protection from lawless racial violence -- 2. Freedom from fear : white violence, black criminality, and the ideological fight for law-and-order -- 3. Policing the Great Society : modernizing law enforcement and rehabilitating criminal sentencing -- 4. The era of big punishment : mandatory minimums, community policing, and death penalty bidding wars -- 5. The last civil right : freedom from state-sanctioned racial violence.

ISBN

• 9780199892785 (hbk.)
• 0199892784 (hbk.)
• 9780199892808 (pbk.)
• 0199892806 (pbk.)

LCCN

2014453404

OCLC

866619825