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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Forman, James, 1967-     Subjects     Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.     Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.     Life and death, Power over.     Judges, Black -- United States.     Politicians, Black -- United States.     Police, Black -- United States.     Social justice -- United States.     Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.     United States -- Race relations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Forman, James, 1967-       by title:      Locking up our own :...       by call number:      364.973 F724L     Search the Web     Forman, James, 1967-     Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.     Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.     Life and death, Power over.     Judges, Black -- United States.     Politicians, Black -- United States.     Police, Black -- United States.     Social justice -- United States.     Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.     United States -- Race relations.       MARC Display

Locking up our own : crime and punishment in Black America / James Forman, Jr. by Forman, James, 1967- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. Call #: 364.973 F724L Subjects Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.   Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.   Life and death, Power over.   Judges, Black -- United States.   Politicians, Black -- United States.   Police, Black -- United States.   Social justice -- United States.   Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.   United States -- Race relations. ISBN:  9780374189976 (hc.) Alternate title:  Crime and punishment in Black America Edition:  First edition Description:  306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Part I: Origins -- 1. Gateway to the war on drugs: marijuana, 1975 -- 2. Black lives matter: gun control, 1975 -- 3. Representatives of their race: the rise of African American police, 1948-78 -- Part II: Consequences -- 4. "Locking up thugs is not vindictive": sentencing, 1981-82 -- 5. "The worst thing to hit us since slavery": crack and the advent of warrior policing, 1988-92 -- 6. What would Martin Luther King, Jr., say?: stop and search, 1995 -- Epilogue: The reach of our mercy, 2014-16 Summary:  "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? 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. An original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils."--Provided by publisher. Awards:  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 2018. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 364.973 F724L Adult books Checked out Jul 12, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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