Black silent majority : the Rockefeller drug laws and the politics of punishment /

"Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of millions of African Americans--far in excess of their representation in the population as a whole. Mich...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fortner, Michael Javen, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > New York (State)
African American criminals > New York (State)
Drug control > New York (State)
African Americans > New York (State) > Social conditions.
Middle class > New York (State)
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale > New York (État)
Criminels noirs américains > New York (État)
Lutte antidrogue > New York (État)
Noirs américains > New York (État) > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
African American criminals
African Americans > Social conditions
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Drug control
Middle class
Law.
New York (State)
New York (Etats-Unis, état)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the reign of criminal terror must be stopped now
  • Rights and wreckage in postwar Harlem
  • Black junkies, White do-gooders, and the Metcalf-Volker Act of 1962
  • Reverend Dempsey's crusade and the rise of involuntary commitment in 1966
  • Crime, class, and conflict in the ghetto
  • King heroin and the development of the drug laws in 1973
  • Race, place, and the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s
  • Conclusion : liberal sentiments to conservative acts.

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