Adam C. Malka is assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
Malka has produced a forceful history, one that resonates with
contemporary concerns over racialized policing routines and a
carceral system that falls most heavily on people of
color.--American Historical Review
Malka's book lays the foundation for our contemporary understanding
of how African Americans became the primary victims of police abuse
and mass incarceration. He uses newspapers, court records,
published reports, and a host of primary sources to support his
argument that white supremacy was the driving force that shaped
policing and criminal justice in nineteenth-century
Baltimore.--Journal of American History
A remarkable book. . . . Malka's major achievement is to force
readers to consider how today's racial disparities in policing and
incarceration are rooted not only in the last fifty years, or in
Jim Crow, but in liberal attempts at Reconstruction and the
abolition of slavery.--Joshua Clark Davis, Criminal Law and
Criminal Justice Books
[Malka] provides a significant contribution to the history of
policing in the United States, pressing readers to consider
uncomfortable truths.--Journal of Southern History
Turns the conventional wisdom about racial policing in the United
States on its head. Far from being a grotesque, late
twentieth-century distortion of American political principles,
race-based disparities in arrests and incarceration, according to
Malka, are expressions of core liberal values and emerged alongside
assumptions about African American freedom. . . . This argument is
original, important, and timely.--Journal of Social History
In this absorbing history of policing in 19th century Baltimore,
Adam Malka uses a close case study to fill out our understanding of
the evolution of policing, vigilantism, and property in 19th
century America.--CrimeReads
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