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

by Adam Malka

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469663902
• ISBN13: 9781469663906
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"