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] ©2015 |
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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