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Author	Murakawa, Naomi.
Title	The first civil right : how liberals built prison America / Naomi Murakawa.
Publication Info.	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	365 M	IN LIBRARY

Description	xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
	Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
	Imprisonment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Punishment -- United States.
	Race discrimination -- United States.
	African American prisoners -- United States.
	United States -- Race relations.
Genre or Form	History.
Added Author	New York Society Library. Book Committee. 2015. ZNS
Added Title	How liberals built prison America
ISBN	9780199892785 (hbk.)
	0199892784 (hbk.)
	9780199892808 (pbk.)
	0199892806 (pbk.)

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