یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
I. Mobtown. Rioters and vigilantes -- Policemen and prisons -- II. Black Liberty, White Power. Securing the workplace -- Protecting the household -- Policing the Black criminal -- III. Emancipation and Its Discontents. The rights of men -- The crime of freedom.
بدون عنوان
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یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"The customary story of the rise of modern policing in America is rooted in the growth of northern cities. In this telling, professional police forces arose primarily in reaction to growing urban populations of immigrants and the poor. Meanwhile, scholars of the American South often argue that vigilantes and lynch mobs, as opposed to policemen and prisons, policed the region. Yet these two interrelated systems came to coexist in Baltimore. One system relied upon amateur and ordinary people - mostly white men - to guard the city, enforce its criminal laws, and govern in its name; the other, which emerged in the 1830s and 1840s, employed uniformed policemen to protect property rights and to build disciplinary asylums, reformatories, and prisons for those who infringed upon those rights. ... Adam Malka shows that for much of the nineteenth century these two systems worked in tandem as complementary state institutions designed to protect white men's property rights and power. He argues that the same assumptions of white male supremacy that sustained slavery also laid the foundations for the development of municipal policing and state punishment, resulting in a state-sanctioned form of brutality that prospered ... under the very conditions of freedom that African Americans fought so determinedly to secure"--
یادداشتهای مربوط به سفارشات
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
JSTOR
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
OverDrive, Inc.
شماره انبار
22573/ctt2207r04
شماره انبار
CEFFDA05-5C67-4CD5-BB23-2C3CE8A7E5D4
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
Men of Mobtown.
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9781469636290
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
African Americans-- Maryland-- Baltimore-- Social conditions-- History-- 19th century.