Crime and punishment in African American history / by James Campbell.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, James M., 1977-
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Punishment > United States > History.
Crime > United States > History.
Discrimination in justice administration > United States > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xi, 263 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Slavery to freedom
  • The slaveholders' rule
  • Slavery and the criminal law
  • Reconstruction
  • Jim Crow justice
  • The southern penal system
  • Lynching and law
  • Crime and policing in the northern city
  • Civil rights and beyond
  • The black freedom struggle
  • The penal state
  • Epilogue: remembrance, justice, and reconciliation
  • Notes
  • Index.