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Less than 2 percent of some 4000 adults prosecuted for participating in the bloodiest ghetto revolt of this generation served any time in jail as a result of their conviction and sentencing. Why? Why, in contrast, did the majority of those arrested following a brief and minor confrontation with police in a different city receive far harsher treatment than ordinarily meted out for comparable offenses in "normal" times? What do these incidents tell us about the nature of legal repression in the Am

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Author

[by] Isaac D. Balbus

Publisher

New York, Russell Sage Foundation

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9781610440226

Category

social science

Subjects

Law, History, Criminology

Updated

2026-03-25