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

• Autore: Murakawa Naomi
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.73085
• Soggetto topico: Civil rights - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The first civil right
• ISBN: 0-19-938072-4; 1-306-86413-5; 0-19-989279-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821960803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in postwar American political development.