TY  - GEN
T1  - The punishment monopoly : tales of my ancestors, dispossession, and the building of the United States
A1  - Buck, Pem Davidson
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Monthly Review Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1126372275
AB  - "Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming 'liberty and justice for all'? Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites"--
CN  - HV9950 .B84 2019
SN  - 1583678352
SN  - 9781583678343
SN  - 1583678344
SN  - 9781583678350
SN  - 9781583678329
SN  - 9781583678336
KW  - Punishment : United States : History.
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration : United States : History.
KW  - Slavery : United States : History.
KW  - United States : Race relations : History.
KW  - Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Esclavage : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations raciales : Histoire.
KW  - Personal Memoirs.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
KW  - Commentary & Opinion.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE.
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Punishment
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Slavery
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -