作者:
James Forman Jr. 出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 副标题: Crime and Punishment in Black America 出版年: 2017-4-18 页数: 320 定价: USD 27.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374189976
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban cente...
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand why.
Forman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder, feared that the gains of the civil rights movement were being undermined by lawlessness―and thus embraced tough-on-crime measures, including longer sentences and aggressive police tactics. In the face of skyrocketing murder rates and the proliferation of open-air drug markets, they believed they had no choice. But the policies they adopted would have devastating consequences for residents of poor black neighborhoods.
A former D.C. public defender, Forman tells riveting stories of politicians, community activists, police officers, defendants, and crime victims. He writes with compassion about individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas―from the men and women he represented in court to officials struggling to respond to a public safety emergency. Locking Up Our Own enriches our understanding of why our society became so punitive and offers important lessons to anyone concerned about the future of race and the criminal justice system in this country.
作者简介
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James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale Law School. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, numerous law reviews, and other publications. A former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, he spent six years as a public defender in Washington, D.C., where he cofounded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School.
How did a majority-black jurisdiction end up incarcerating so many of its own? ... How could it be that even after forty years of tough-on-crime tactics, with their attendant toll on black America, 64% of African Americans still thought the courts were not harsh enough?
I wrote this book to try to answer such questions. Along the way, I have tried to recover a portion of African American social, political, and intellectual history--a story that gets ignored or elided when we fail to appreciate the role that blacks have played in shaping criminal justice policy over the past forty years. .. to a significant extent, the new black leaders and their constituents supported tough-on-crime measures.
In documenting the range of black responses to crime, this book repudiates a claim sometimes m... (查看原文)
What if we came to see that justice requires accountability, but not vengeance? What if we came to understand that equal protection under the law, including equal protection for black victims too long denied it, doesn't have to mean the harshest available punishment? What if we endeavored to make the lives of black victims matter without policies that lead to the mass incarceration of black defendants? What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others? (查看原文)
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0 有用 竹坞 2022-10-24 09:35:34 美国
What a brilliant book! 同时也是让我自我刨析的一本书，填补了读这本书之前我对司法系统认知的空白和消除一些内化的偏见
0 有用 Mona 2020-02-16 11:40:58
《关起我们自己人：美国黑人的罪与罚》 听书
2 有用 用户6542019473 2019-06-07 11:09:09
社会为什么要容忍善待一个没有信仰缺乏教养的低素质群体呢？如果说教育能改变这一切，那也需要几代人的漫长过程，更需要他们自身有这个意愿和选择。辛普森的案子就说明骨子里的东西不是金钱和地位就能去掉的。
0 有用 摩尼咖 2019-06-11 17:30:33
普利策。黑人问题的根本
0 有用 安哥拉 2023-08-16 17:31:59 日本
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0 有用 安哥拉 2023-08-16 17:31:59 日本
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1 有用 薇尔莉特 2023-07-12 08:47:52 江苏
作为种族主义的受害者，作者的思维确实和我不太一样，我和书里列举的那些黑人精英的想法是一样的:对du贩实行严刑峻法，最好像杜特尔特一样把这些人都突突了。但作者支持减轻量刑并区分🍃和其他du//品，有他的道理，我却不敢苟同，作者认为黑人需要的是精神上的、教育上的“马歇尔计划”，感觉太理想化了，也在为美国政府脱罪，说到底黑人的犯罪率居高不下且一直被有选择性地严厉执法，不就是美国政府的问题吗？要么是不想管... 作为种族主义的受害者，作者的思维确实和我不太一样，我和书里列举的那些黑人精英的想法是一样的:对du贩实行严刑峻法，最好像杜特尔特一样把这些人都突突了。但作者支持减轻量刑并区分🍃和其他du//品，有他的道理，我却不敢苟同，作者认为黑人需要的是精神上的、教育上的“马歇尔计划”，感觉太理想化了，也在为美国政府脱罪，说到底黑人的犯罪率居高不下且一直被有选择性地严厉执法，不就是美国政府的问题吗？要么是不想管，要么是没能力管，抑或两者都是。 前排惊现明目张胆的racist😅 (展开)
0 有用 悟净 2023-01-20 22:21:24 美国
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0 有用 竹坞 2022-10-24 09:35:34 美国
What a brilliant book! 同时也是让我自我刨析的一本书，填补了读这本书之前我对司法系统认知的空白和消除一些内化的偏见
1 有用 Echo 2022-08-26 05:07:20 美国
就是说角度（黑人社区内部的矛盾和推力）很新颖，语言也很简洁，就是实体内容感觉不太精彩有点重复。