The first civil right : how liberals built prison America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murakawa, Naomi (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. Imprisonment > United States > History > 20th century. Punishment > United States. United States > Race relations. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.