Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South by Amy Wood, Natalie Ring

Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South

Amy Wood, Natalie Ring

240 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

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Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that e...

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