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OverviewJames Campbell provides an in-depth survey of crime, punishment and justice in African American history. Presenting cutting-edge scholarship on issues of criminal justice in African American history in an accessible way for students, he makes connections between black experiences of criminal justice and violence from the slave era to the present. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James Campbell (University of Leicester, Leicester)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.355kg ISBN: 9780230273818ISBN 10: 0230273815 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 11 December 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: SLAVERY TO FREEDOM Slave Resistance, Crime and Control Slavery and Criminal Justice Before the Civil War Reconstruction PART II: JIM CROW JUSTICE The State and the Mob: Lynching, Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty Punishment and Labour: Convict Leasing, Chain Gangs and Peonage Resisting Jim Crow Justice PART III: FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO THE PRESENT Criminal Justice and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1972 The Modern Penal State Epilogue: Politics, Memory and Justice in Modern America Further Reading.ReviewsAuthor InformationJAMES CAMPBELL is Lecturer in American History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Slavery on Trial: Race, Class, and Criminal Justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia and the co-editor (with Rebecca Griffin) of Reconstruction: People and Perspectives. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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