Crime and punishment in the Jim Crow South /
"In recent years, there has been renewed attention to problems pervading the criminal justice system in the United States. The prison population has grown exponentially since 1970 due to the war on drugs, minimum sentencing laws, and other crime control measures instituted in the 1980s and 1990...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The trials of George Doyle: race and policing in Jim Crow New Orleans / K. Stephen Prince
- "Many people 'colored' have come to the homicide office": police investigations of African American homicides in Memphis, 1920-1945 / Brandon T. Jett
- Forced confessions: police torture and the African American struggle for civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s South / Silvan Niedermeier
- The South's Sin City: white crime and the limits of law and order in Phenix City, Alabama / Tammy Ingram
- Testimonial incapacity and criminal defendants in the South / Pippa Holloway
- Sewing and spinning for the state: incarcerated black female garment workers in the Jim Crow South / Talitha L. LeFlouria
- Cole Blease's pardoning pen: state power and penal reform in South Carolina / Amy Louise Wood
- Hanging, the electric chair, and death penalty reform in the early twentieth-century South / Vivien Miller
- The making of the modern death penalty in Jim Crow North Carolina / Seth Kotch.
