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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murakawa, Naomi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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