"The Jim Crow Effect: Denial, Dignity, Human Rights, and Racialized Mass Incarceration, 29 J. Civ. Rts. & Econ. Dev 15 (2016)" by Cecil J. Hunt, II

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The Jim Crow Effect: Denial, Dignity, Human Rights, and Racialized Mass Incarceration, 29 J. Civ. Rts. & Econ. Dev 15 (2016)

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Cecil J. Hunt, II, John Marshall Law School

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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination,
Law,
Law and Race and
Law Enforcement and Corrections

Abstract

The overarching theme of this paper is that the racialization of mass incarceration in America, which has been taking place since the latter part of the last century, and continues to this very day, is characterized by what I term, the “Jim Crow effect".

Citation Information

Cecil Hunt, The Jim Crow Effect: Denial, Dignity, Human Rights, and Racialized Mass Incarceration, 29 J. Civ. Rts. & Econ. Dev 15 (2016)