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000801630 1001_ $$aForman, James,$$d1967-$$eauthor.
000801630 24510 $$aLocking up our own :$$bcrime and punishment in black America /$$cJames Forman Jr.
000801630 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000801630 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$$c2017.
000801630 300__ $$a306 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c24 cm
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000801630 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000801630 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-286) and index.
000801630 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Part I. Origins. Gateway to the war on drugs : marijuana, 1975 -- Black lives matter : gun control, 1975 -- Representatives of their race : the rise of African American police, 1948-78 -- Part II. Consequences. "Locking up thugs is not vindictive" : sentencing, 1981-82 -- "The worst thing to hit us since slavery" : crack and the advent of warrior policing, 1988-92 -- What would Martin Luther King, Jr., say? : stop and search, 1995 -- Epilogue : the reach of our mercy, 2014-16.
000801630 520__ $$a"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics--and their impact on people of color--are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. Many came to believe that tough measures--such as stringent drug and gun laws and "pretext traffic stops" in poor African American neighborhoods--were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a "cancer" that had to be cut away from the rest of black America. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency. Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, D.C., Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas--from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils."--$$cProvided by publisher.
000801630 520__ $$a"Recounts the tragic role that some African Americans--as judges, prosecutors, politicians, police officers, and voters--played in escalating the war on crime"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000801630 586__ $$aPulitzer Prize, 2018.
000801630 650_0 $$aCriminal justice, Administration of$$zUnited States.
000801630 650_0 $$aDiscrimination in criminal justice administration$$zUnited States.
000801630 650_0 $$aLife and death, Power over.
000801630 650_0 $$aAfrican American judges.
000801630 650_0 $$aAfrican American politicians.
000801630 650_0 $$aAfrican American police.
000801630 650_0 $$aSocial justice$$zUnited States.
000801630 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations.
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