The Yale Law Journal

Darren Lenard Hutchinson

Review

Who Locked Us Up? Examining the Social Meaning of Black Punitiveness

Darren Lenard Hutchinson

In this Review of James Forman, Jr.’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, Darren Hutchinson reconciles Forman’s research with antiracist accounts of U.S. crime policy. Literature on implicit bias, social dominance orientation, and right-wing authoritaria…