Black Silent Majority : : The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment / / Michael Javen Fortner.

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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 9 halftones
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