Author: New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Crime, Its Causes, Control and Effect on SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Report of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Crime, Its Causes, Control & Effect on Society
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Crime, Its Causes, Control and Effect on SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Report of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Crime, its Causes, Control & Effect on Society
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Crime, Its Causes, Control and Effect on SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
Book Description
Black Silent Majority
Author: Michael Javen FortnerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674496108
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of millions of African Americans—far in excess of their representation in the population as a whole. Michael Javen Fortner shows in this eye-opening account that these punitive policies also enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, who were angry about decline and disorder in their communities. Black Silent Majority uncovers the role African Americans played in creating today’s system of mass incarceration. Current anti-drug policies are based on a set of controversial laws first adopted in New York in the early 1970s and championed by the state’s Republican governor, Nelson Rockefeller. Fortner traces how many blacks in New York came to believe that the rehabilitation-focused liberal policies of the 1960s had failed. Faced with economic malaise and rising rates of addiction and crime, they blamed addicts and pushers. By 1973, the outcry from grassroots activists and civic leaders in Harlem calling for drastic measures presented Rockefeller with a welcome opportunity to crack down on crime and boost his political career. New York became the first state to mandate long prison sentences for selling or possessing narcotics. Black Silent Majority lays bare the tangled roots of a pernicious system. America’s drug policies, while in part a manifestation of the conservative movement, are also a product of black America’s confrontation with crime and chaos in its own neighborhoods.
Handgun crime control, 1975-1976
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile DelinquencyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Handgun Crime Control, 1975-1976: Oversight of 1968 Gun Control Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile DelinquencyPublisher:
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Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
Book Description
Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma
Author: Marsha E. BarrettPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501776258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma reveals the fascinating and influential political career of the four-time New York State governor and US vice president. Marsha E. Barrett's portrayal of this multi-faceted political player focuses on the eclipse of moderate Republicanism and the betrayal of deeply held principles for political power. Although never able to win his party's presidential nomination, Rockefeller's tenure as governor was notable for typically liberal policies: infrastructure projects, expanding the state's university system, and investing in local services and the social safety net. As the Civil Rights movement intensified in the early 1960s, Rockefeller envisioned a Republican Party recommitted to its Lincolnian heritage as a defender of Black equality. But the party's extreme right wing, encouraged by its successful outreach to segregationists before and after the nomination of Barry Goldwater, pushed the party to the right. With his national political ambitions fading by the late 1960s, Rockefeller began to tack right himself on social and racial issues, refusing to endorse efforts to address police brutality, accusing, without proof, Black welfare mothers of cheating the system, or introducing harsh drug laws that disproportionately incarcerated people of color. These betrayals of his own ideals did little to win him the support of the party faithful, and his vice presidency ended in humiliation, rather than the validation of moderate ideals. An in-depth, insightful, and timely political history, Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma details how the standard-bearer of moderate Republicanism lost the battle for the soul of the Party of Lincoln, leading to mainlining of white-grievance populism for the post-civil rights era.
New Jersey-New York Airport Commission Compact
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
New Jersey-New York Airport Commission Compact
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description