![]() ![]() ![]() A Washington, D.C., public defender for six years, Professor Forman recalled how Mayor Barry and other city officials across the country supported tough-on-crime policies to combat high murder rates and drug related problems in their cities. Forman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. Forman began researching that question in what would become his book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2017), which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times ’s 10 Best Books of 2017. In his book, Professor Forman asserts that many of the policies that were put in place during that time were also backed by some African American officials coming into office. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. ![]() T09:00:19-04:00 Professor James Forman talked about his book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, in which he examines criminal justice polices put in place in the early 1970s and 1980s to curb rising crime in cities and argues that they are having an adverse effect today. ![]()
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