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Crime and Punishment in African American History

This 92,000-word book (263 pages) derives from more than 10-years of research, and represents 50% of Campbell’s research time during this REF period; it signifies double-weight three ways: (i) The collection and analysis of a considerable body of material (drawing on research at 4 US archives, multiple microfilm and digital collections, and extensive and diverse secondary literature); (ii) The sustaining of multiple and interrelated arguments concerning African American social-economic history; law and violence, criminal justice and civil rights, politics and penal reform, (iii) chronological and geographical range: the book covers more than 200 years of history across the United States.