Locking Up Our Own: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Softcover

Jr., James Forman

 
9780349143682: Locking Up Our Own: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349143684 ISBN 13: 9780349143682
Verlag: Abacus, 2018

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James Forman Jr's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of race and the criminal justice system.

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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, DC, where he cofounded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School.

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Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of colour. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation's urban centres.

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, DC 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 neighbourhoods.

A former 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 American society became so punitive and offers important lessons to anyone concerned about the future of race and the criminal justice system.

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Verlag
Abacus
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349143684
ISBN 13 
9780349143682
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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