
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
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James Forman Jr.
Pulitzer Prize Winner, Nonfiction, 2018
An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law.
Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics - and their impact on people of color - are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. Many came to believe that tough measures - such as stringent drug and gun laws and "pretext traffic stops" in poor African American neighborhoods - were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a "cancer" that had to be cut away from the rest of black America. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency. Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, DC, Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas - from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils.
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excellent
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Very eye opening!
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great book and read
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Great read
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A good start
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Important book that we all need to read
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Considering the greatest share of people incarcerated in the US are convicted of armed robbery, the need to address all offenses, not just “non violent” is key if we want to make real changes in mass incarceration, as is demystifying the misleadership class who helped get us here.
Please stay all the way through the epilogue
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Must read
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James Forman Jr. plows beyond the emotionally charged arguments we so often see in the media today by digging deeper to uncover the whole story. Truth is, there is enough blame to go around. This book doesn’t offer the complete “fix” on the topic, but it does help illuminate the picture of how we have arrived to where we are as a nation today.
Eye-opening!
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