Law and legal history - AAIHS

Keith Cooper: The Stigma of Black Criminality on an (Almost) Exonerated Man

August 11, 2016August 11, 2016 Jack Heller criminal justice system

In January 1997, police officers in Elkhart, Indiana arrested Keith Cooper for a purse snatching because he fit the general

Lessons in Law and Order Politics

August 9, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger criminal justice system, democracy

While many commentators have juxtaposed the bizarre hilarity of the Republican National Convention to the carefully crafted Democratic National Convention,

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: An Interview with Elizabeth Hinton

July 30, 2016July 30, 2016 Garrett Felber mass incarceration, policing, poverty

This month, I interviewed Professor Elizabeth Kai Hinton on her new book, The War on Poverty to the War on

“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force

July 11, 2016July 10, 2016 Guest Poster convict leasing, policing, South

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

Ida B. Wells, Police Violence, and the Legacy of Lynching

July 8, 2016July 10, 2016 Keisha N. Blain lynching, police brutality, police violence

The recent police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota bring to the surface, yet again,