Original publication date
2010
Publication
Harvard University Press (2011), Edition: 1st THUS, 392 pages
ISBN
9780674062115
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CONTENTS
Preface, 2019
Introduction: The Mismeasure of Crime
1. Saving the Nation: The Racial Data Revolution and the Negro Problem
2. Writing Crime into Race: Racial Criminalization and the Dawn of Jim Crow
3. Incriminating Culture: The Limits of Racial Liberalism in the Progressive Era
4. Preventing Crime: White and Black Reformers in Philadelphia
5. Fighting Crime: Politics and Prejudice in the City of Brotherly Love
6. Policing Racism: Jim Crow Justice in the Urban North
Conclusion: The Conundrum of Criminality
Manuscript Sources
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Preface, 2019
Introduction: The Mismeasure of Crime
1. Saving the Nation: The Racial Data Revolution and the Negro Problem
2. Writing Crime into Race: Racial Criminalization and the Dawn of Jim Crow
3. Incriminating Culture: The Limits of Racial Liberalism in the Progressive Era
4. Preventing Crime: White and Black Reformers in Philadelphia
5. Fighting Crime: Politics and Prejudice in the City of Brotherly Love
6. Policing Racism: Jim Crow Justice in the Urban North
Conclusion: The Conundrum of Criminality
Manuscript Sources
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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