The first civil right : how liberals built prison America /
"The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many belie...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Oxford studies in postwar American political development.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The first civil right : protection from lawless racial violence
- Freedom from fear : white violence, black criminality, and the ideological fight for law-and-order
- Policing the Great Society : modernizing law enforcement and rehabilitating criminal sentencing
- The era of big punishment : mandatory minimums, community policing, and death penalty bidding wars
- The last civil right : freedom from state-sanctioned racial violence