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The men of Mobtown : policing Baltimore in the age of slavery and emancipation

Title
The men of Mobtown : policing Baltimore in the age of slavery and emancipation / Adam Malka.
Author
Malka, Adam
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description
336 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
"The customary story of the rise of modern policing in America is rooted in the growth of northern cities. In this telling, professional police forces arose primarily in reaction to growing urban populations of immigrants and the poor. Meanwhile, scholars of the American South often argue that vigilantes and lynch mobs, as opposed to policemen and prisons, policed the region. Yet these two interrelated systems came to coexist in Baltimore. One system relied upon amateur and ordinary people - mostly white men - to guard the city, enforce its criminal laws, and govern in its name; the other, which emerged in the 1830s and 1840s, employed uniformed policemen to protect property rights and to build disciplinary asylums, reformatories, and prisons for those who infringed upon those rights. ... Adam Malka shows that for much of the nineteenth century these two systems worked in tandem as complementary state institutions designed to protect white men's property rights and power. He argues that the same assumptions of white male supremacy that sustained slavery also laid the foundations for the development of municipal policing and state punishment, resulting in a state-sanctioned form of brutality that prospered ... under the very conditions of freedom that African Americans fought so determinedly to secure"--
Series Statement
Justice, Power, and Politics
Uniform Title
Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
Sc E 18-407
ISBN
  • 9781469636290
  • 1469636298
  • 9781469636306 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2017037708
OCLC
1002302798
Author
Malka, Adam, author.
Title
The men of Mobtown : policing Baltimore in the age of slavery and emancipation / Adam Malka.
Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Justice, Power, and Politics
Justice, power, and politics.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-407
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