Black Silent Majority

The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Criminal law, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, Political Science
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Author: Michael Javen Fortner ISBN: 9780674496101
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: September 7, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Michael Javen Fortner
ISBN: 9780674496101
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: September 7, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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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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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