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Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice
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by Frankie Y. Bailey and Alice P. Green
Sales Rank: 190721
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List Price: $125.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 264 pages
Published by: Praeger Publishers April 30, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0275953033
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0275953034
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
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"A valuable piece of work that is long overdue. All levels."
Product Review
Bailey and Green have produced a book that fills a gap in the continuing and often painful debate over race, crime, and justice in the US. In 14 chapters, supplemented with a unique and valuable bibliographical essay and a general bibliography, the authors take the reader through a historical, social, and legal landscape enmeshed in a race-crime-justice subtext. [This is] all told with readable prose and scholarly precision. A valuable piece of work that is long overdue. All levels.Choice
"The book presents itself as academic, but I became completely immersed in its stories. The authors additionally provide the reader with a handy bibliographical essay detailing resources on African-American issues in books and on film. Law Never Here is the best book I've read this year." "Law Never Here is primarily a record, a text most useful as an exhaustive enyclopedia of both the legal and social struggles of black Americans over three centuries. It is well footnoted, with a lengthy bibliography, as well as an extensive bibliographical essay at the conclusion citing further books, articles, documentaries, and popular films to extend the subject.Law Never Here is an unblinking record, a persistent catalogue of white power over black, used sometimesto help, most often to ignore, too often to grind down."Fellowship
Reader Reviews
Law Never Here is an interesting book, and, as the authors say, certainly timely considering recent developments with relation to African Americans and law enforcement. However, as a historian, I was left wanting more from Bailey and Green. The book's biggest flaw is its heavy dependence on the scholarship of other historians. It covers too broad of a time period, and as a result, Bailey and Green the criminologists are forced to rely on historians for any infomation. They quote other historians almost verbatum in early chapters. This detracts from their overall work, because they rely on other historians to deliver their own message. Anything before 1900 is exceptionally weak. The author's arguments for twentieth century are strong, however. Here, I believe their criminology background serves them well, and gives a different perspective than one would get from a historian or sociologist, for example. The authors deserve credit for trying to fit events like Attica, Rodney King, and O.J. Simpson into a larger framework. These are events too recent for even modern historians to touch, and Bailey and Green handle them well. I can't fully recommend this book because of the mentioned flaws, but it might be worthwhile just for the authors' analysis of recent events. I'd recommend Harvard historian Randall Kennedy's "Race, Crime, and Law" over this book.
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