The Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels Before the American Criminal Courts: Black Rebels Before the American Criminal Courts

by Isaac D. Balbus

Book Overview

Less than 2 percent of some 4000 adults prosecuted for participating in the bloodiest ghetto revolt of this generation served any time in jail as a result of their conviction and sentencing. Why? Why, in contrast, did the majority of those arrested following a brief and minor confrontation with police in a different city receive far harsher treatment than ordinarily meted out for comparable offenses in "normal" times? What do these incidents tell...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871540819
• ISBN13: 9780871540812
• Release Date: July 1973
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"