Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
Aggressive policing and draconian sentencing have disproportionately imprisoned millions of African Americans for drug-related offenses. Michael Javen Fortner shows that in the 1970s these punitive policies toward addicts and pushers enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, angry about the chaos in their own neighborhoods.
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Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
Aggressive policing and draconian sentencing have disproportionately imprisoned millions of African Americans for drug-related offenses. Michael Javen Fortner shows that in the 1970s these punitive policies toward addicts and pushers enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, angry about the chaos in their own neighborhoods.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780674743991 |
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Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
Publication date: | 09/28/2015 |
Pages: | 364 |
Sales rank: | 1,100,355 |
Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d) |
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