City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 /

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"Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hernandez, Kelly Lytle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > California > Los Angeles > History.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > California > Los Angeles > History.
Criminal justice, Administration of > California > Los Angeles > History.
Emprisonnement > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Imprisonment.
California > Los Angeles.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : conquest and incarceration
  • An eliminatory option
  • Hobos in heaven
  • Not imprisonment in a legal sense
  • Scorpion's tale
  • Caged birds
  • Justice for Samuel Faulkner
  • Conclusion : upriver in the age of mass incarceration
  • The Rebel Archive.

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