02944nam 2200601 450 991082196080332120230803202949.00-19-938072-41-306-86413-50-19-989279-2(CKB)3710000000125263(EBL)1707889(SSID)ssj0001292912(PQKBManifestationID)11693112(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292912(PQKBWorkID)11284589(PQKB)11563200(Au-PeEL)EBL1707889(CaPaEBR)ebr10881549(CaONFJC)MIL617664(OCoLC)881366456(MiAaPQ)EBC1707889(EXLCZ)99371000000012526320140619h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe first civil right how liberals built prison America /Naomi MurakawaOxford, England :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (281 p.)Studies in Postwar American Political DevelopmentIncludes index.0-19-989278-4 0-19-989280-6 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 TablesAuthor's Notes and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations in Notes; Notes; IndexThe 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 COxford studies in postwar American political development.Civil rightsUnited StatesUnited StatesRace relationsCivil rights342.73085Murakawa Naomi1688577MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821960803321The first civil right4062941UNINA