The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America

by Christopher Waldrep

Book Overview

The U.S. is the most violent industrialized country in the world, and lynching - that is, murder endorsed by the community - may be a key to understanding America's heritage of violence and perhaps point to solutions that can eradicate it. While lynchings are predominantly racial in tone and motive, Christopher Waldrep's sweeping study of the meaning and uses of lynching from the colonial period to the present reveals that the definition of the term...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312293992
• ISBN13: 9780312293994
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.7"