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Author Brown, Elizabeth, 1976- author.

Title Race and crime : geographies of injustice / Elizabeth Brown and George Barganier
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages)
Contents Race, crime, and justice: definitions and context -- Race, colonialism, and the emergence of racial democracy -- The history of racial science: social science and the birth of criminology -- Social problems and the U.S. racial state -- Housing inequality and the geography of residential racial segregation -- The problem of urban America: race and the emergence of mass incarceration -- Policing the city -- The colonial order of the court -- Imprisoning race: from slavery to the prison -- "Race to execution": lynching, mass incarceration, and the resurgence of the death penalty -- Conclusion: futures of race and crime?
Summary "Race and Crime examines how and why racialized mass incarceration emerged as a new racial management strategy in the United States and explores its impact on the institutions of criminal justice. Elizabeth Brown and George Barganier historicize the issues of race and crime in society by returning to the history of colonial conquest and the emergence of the idea of race. They show how this idea transitions and transforms throughout history and affects the creation of state power, the emergence of new state institutions, and geographies of racial segregation. Finally, they analyze how punishment, the death penalty, and everyday practices of surveillance practiced in and through the police and courts shape the geographical expression of injustice in the United States today."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 05, 2018)
Subject Racism in criminology -- United States
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Imprisonment -- United States
Human geography -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Human geography
Imprisonment
Racism in criminology
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Barganier, George, 1976- author.
LC no. 2018016608
ISBN 9780520967403
0520967402