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Crime and Punishment in African American History
James 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.
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Crime and Punishment in African American History
James 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.
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Crime and Punishment in African American History

Crime and Punishment in African American History

by James Campbell
Crime and Punishment in African American History

Crime and Punishment in African American History

by James Campbell

Overview

James 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230273818
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/11/2012
Series: American History in Depth , #12
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

JAMES 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.
JAMES 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
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.

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