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Paperback The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation Book

ISBN: 1469663902

ISBN13: 9781469663906

The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation

(Part of the Justice, Power, and Politics Series)

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What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Malka raises this disturbing possibility through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the influential hub of Baltimore during and after slavery's final decades. He argues that America's new professional police forces and prisons were developed to expand, not curb, the reach of white vigilantes,...

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