Locking Up Our Own

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• 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)

  沈十七 2021-05-07 15:27:14

• 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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