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100 1 _aForman, James,
_d1967-
245 1 0 _aLocking up our own :
_bcrime and punishment in black America /
_cJames Forman, Jr.
250 _aFirst Edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a306 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-286) and index.
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.
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.
650 0 _aHV9950.
650 0 _aCriminal justice, Administration of
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aDiscrimination in criminal justice administration
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLife and death, Power over.
650 0 _aAfrican American judges.
650 0 _aAfrican American politicians.
650 0 _aAfrican American police.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRace relations.
650 0 _aSocial justice
_zUnited States.
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