Locking up our own: crime and punishment in black America
"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics ... and their impact on people of color ... are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics ... and their impact on people of color ... are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. Many came to believe that tough measures ... such as stringent drug and gun laws and "pretext traffic stops" in poor African American neighborhoods ... were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a "cancer" that had to be cut away from the rest of black America. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency. Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, D.C., Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas ... from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils. "... "Recounts the tragic role that some African Americans...as judges, prosecutors, politicians, police officers, and voters...played in escalating the war on crime"... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-286) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 306 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780374537449 9780374189976 |
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INTRODUCTION 3
PART I: ORIGINS
1. GATEWAY TO THE WAR ON DRUGS: MARIJUANA, 1975 17
2. BLACK LIVES MATTER: GUN CONTROL, 1975 47
3. REPRESENTATIVES OF THEIR RACE: THE RISE OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICE, 1948-78 78
PART II: CONSEQUENCES
4. LOCKING UP THUGS IS NOT VINDICTIVE : SENTENCING, 1981-82 119
5. THE WORST THING TO HIT US SINCE SLAVERY : CRACK AND
THE ADVENT OF WARRIOR POLICING, 1988-92 151
6. WHAT WOULD MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., SAY?:
STOP AND SEARCH, 1995 185
EPILOGUE: THE REACH OF OUR MERCY, 2014-16 217
NOTES 241
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 287
INDEX 291
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| spelling | Forman, James Jr. 1967- Verfasser (DE-588)1132715687 aut Locking up our own crime and punishment in black America James Forman Jr. First paperback edition New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018 306 Seiten Illustrationen txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-286) and index "An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics ... and their impact on people of color ... are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. Many came to believe that tough measures ... such as stringent drug and gun laws and "pretext traffic stops" in poor African American neighborhoods ... were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a "cancer" that had to be cut away from the rest of black America. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency. Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, D.C., Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas ... from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils. "... "Recounts the tragic role that some African Americans...as judges, prosecutors, politicians, police officers, and voters...played in escalating the war on crime"... Geschichte 1948-2016 gnd rswk-swf SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement HV9950 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 Justiz (DE-588)4073136-4 gnd rswk-swf Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 gnd rswk-swf Diskriminierung (DE-588)4012472-1 gnd rswk-swf USA United States Race relations USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Amerika (DE-588)4001670-5 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 s Justiz (DE-588)4073136-4 s Diskriminierung (DE-588)4012472-1 s Geschichte 1948-2016 z DE-604 Amerika (DE-588)4001670-5 g 1\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, e-book 978-0-374-71290-7 SWB Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030353280&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Locking up our own crime and punishment in black America |
| title_auth | Locking up our own crime and punishment in black America |
| title_exact_search | Locking up our own crime and punishment in black America |
| title_full | Locking up our own crime and punishment in black America James Forman Jr. |
| title_fullStr | Locking up our own crime and punishment in black America James Forman Jr. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Locking up our own crime and punishment in black America James Forman Jr. |
| title_short | Locking up our own |
| title_sort | locking up our own crime and punishment in black america |
| title_sub | crime and punishment in black America |
| topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement HV9950 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 Justiz (DE-588)4073136-4 gnd Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 gnd Diskriminierung (DE-588)4012472-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement HV9950 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 Justiz Schwarze Diskriminierung USA United States Race relations Amerika |
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