Locking up our own : crime and punishment in Black America /

Locking up our own : crime and punishment in Black America / James Forman, Jr.

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Publisher's description: In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As [law professor] James Forman Jr. points...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forman, James, 1967- (Author)
Other title:Crime and punishment in Black America.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • "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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