University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"""Too Much Time for the Crime I Done"": Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Punishment in Illinois and South Carolina, 1865 to 1900"
Abstract
dc:description"Approaching state penal systems as a nexus where society's ideas about region and politics, crime and punishment, race and ethnicity clashed with the violent reality of prison life helps illustrate how minority groups forged an identity in opposition to the broader values of the nation. Such findings contribute directly to African-American history and immigration studies by exposing the importance of political representation to minority groups and the influence of society's perceptions concerning ""black criminality"" on late nineteenth-century criminal justice systems. Understanding these connections helps us better comprehend how racial and ethnic tensions inform current debates about relationships among crime, law, and society."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Kamerling, Henry Douglas
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Burton, Orville Vernon
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI9904499
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84738