The first civil right : how liberals built prison America / Naomi Murakawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murakawa, Naomi, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in postwar American political development.

Studies in Postwar American Political Development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 believe that this shift began with the ""tough on crime"" policies advocated by Republicans and southern Democrats beginning in the late 1960s, which sought longer prison sentences, more frequent use of the death penalty, and the explicit or implicit targeting of politically marginalized people. In The First C

Contents:

Cover; Series; The First Civil Right; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1 The First Civil Right: Protection from Lawless Racial Violence; 2 Freedom from Fear: White Violence, Black Criminality, and the Ideological Fight for Law-and-Order; 3 Policing the Great Society: Modernizing Law Enforcement and Rehabilitating Criminal Sentencing; 4 The Era of Big Punishment: Mandatory Minimums, Community Policing, and Death Penalty Bidding Wars; 5 The Last Civil Right: Freedom from State-Sanctioned Racial Violence; Appendix Tables

Author's Notes and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations in Notes; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-938072-4

1-306-86413-5

0-19-989279-2

OCLC:

881366456