James Campbell provides an in-depth survey of crime, punishment and justice in African American history. Presenting cutting-edge scholarship on issues of criminal justice in African American history in an accessible way for students, he makes connections between black experiences of criminal justice and violence from the slave era to the present.
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James Campbell provides an in-depth survey of crime, punishment and justice in African American history. Presenting cutting-edge scholarship on issues of criminal justice in African American history in an accessible way for students, he makes connections between black experiences of criminal justice and violence from the slave era to the present.
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Introduction PART I: SLAVERY TO FREEDOM Slave Resistance, Crime and Control Slavery and Criminal Justice Before the Civil War Reconstruction PART II: JIM CROW JUSTICE The State and the Mob: Lynching, Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty Punishment and Labour: Convict Leasing, Chain Gangs and Peonage Resisting Jim Crow Justice PART III: FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO THE PRESENT Criminal Justice and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1972 The Modern Penal State Epilogue: Politics, Memory and Justice in Modern America Further Reading.
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A comprehensive overview of crime and punishment in African American history

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780230273818
Publisert
2012-12-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter

Biographical note

JAMES CAMPBELL is Lecturer in American History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Slavery on Trial: Race, Class, and Criminal Justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia and the co-editor (with Rebecca Griffin) of Reconstruction: People and Perspectives.