The first civil right: how liberals built prison America

List of Figures and Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. The First Civil Right: Protection from Lawless Racial Violence 2. Freedom from Fear: White Violence, Black Criminality, _ and the Ideological Fight for Law-and-Order 3. Policing the Great Society: Modernizing Law Enforcemen t and Rehabilitating Criminal Sentencing 4. The Era of Big Punishment: Mandatory Minimums, Communi ty Policing, and Death Penalty Bidding Wars 5. The Last Civil Right: Freedom from State-Sanctioned Racial Violence Appendix Tables Abbreviations in Notes Notes Index