Index

A

Abdullah, Melina, 1

Abrams, Stacey, 1

absolute rights at common law, 1.1-1.2

Ahrens, Lorne, 1

Alexander, Michelle, 1

Anderson, Carol, 1

antebellum legal system, 1 , 2 , 3

antebellum South, memorialization of, 1 , 2

Arbery, Ahmaud, 1

coverup of homicide by police and prosecutors, 1.1-1.2

pursuit and homicide of, 1.1-1.2

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Way, 1 , 2.1-2.2

and Black Lives Matter, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4

as “Black Mecca”, 1

and free black labor, 1

history of, 1.1-1.2

police department and demonstrations, 1.1-1.2

and white riots, 1

B

Barbados, 1

Beasley, Joe, 1 , 2

Beckett, Sven, 1

Bell, Derrick, 1.1-1.2

Bell, Wesley, 1

Benton, Tommy, 1.1-1.2

Biden, Joe, 1 , 2 , 3

Black Lives Matter, 1 , 2

black criticism of, 1

and older black leadership, 1

and culture war, 1

and Michael Brown shooting case, 1

opinion polling about, 1

origins in Trayvon Martin shooting case, 1

protests in Atlanta, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4

protests in Los Angeles, 1

Tex McIver’s fear of protests, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5

Blackstone, Sir William, 1

See also absolute rights at common law

Blue Lives Matter, 1 , 2

See also police, shootings of

Bobo, Lawrence, 1

boundary setting See classification of humans

Brown, Michael, 1

U.S. Department of Justice criminal investigation, 1.1-1.2

See also Ferguson, Missouri

Brunswick, Georgia, 1

Buckhead, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Butler, Jaylan, lawsuit against police, 1.1-1.2

Butler, Paul, 1

C

Capehart, Jonathan, 1

carjackings in Atlanta, 1.1-1.2

Carlson, Ronald L., 1

Carter, Dani Jo, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

Castile, Philando, 1

charivari, 1

Charlottesville, Virginia, 1

citizen’s arrests See private actors in criminal justice system

classification of humans, 1

by race, 1

Cohen, Dov, 1

“

“contributory badness”, 1 , 2 , 3

C

cotton and slavery, 1 , 2.1-2.2

cotton gin and slavery, 1

counsel, right to, 1.1-1.2

“

“cover” criminal charge, 1

C

Crane, Bill, 1

Crank, John P., 1

crime rates, perception of, 1.1-1.2

criminal justice systems

defined, 1.1-1.2

elements of, 1.1-1.2

in federalist system, 1

criminal law

felonies and misdemeanors, 1.1-1.2

historical roots of, 1

homicide, 1.1-1.2

shaped by society, 1

criminal procedure, crime control and due process models of, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

critical race theory, 1.1-1.2

Crowley, Sgt. James, 1

cultural and structural factors in crime, 1

culture war, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Black Lives Matter as front in, 1.1-1.2

racial perceptions in, 1 , 2

D

Daughters, Grayson, 1.1-1.2

Dial, Richard, 1

Du Bois, W.E.B., 1

E

elites, influence on law, 1 , 2

equal justice under law, 1

opinion polling about, 1 , 2

evidence, direct and circumstantial, 1.1-1.2

race as circumstantial evidence, 1 , 2

F

favoritism, allegations of in McIver investigation, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

and previous felony shooting charges, 1.1-1.2

fear as influence on slave law, 1

felonies and misdemeanors, 1.1-1.2

Ferguson, Missouri, 1.1-1.2

U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation, 1.1-1.2

Floyd, George, 1

Friedman, Lawrence, 1

G

Garner, Eric, 1

Gascon, George, 1 , 2

Gates, Henry Louis Jr., 1 , 2

on anti-Semitism, 1

bogus arrest of, 1.1-1.2

Georgia

history of, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Glynn County, Georgia

district attorney, criticism of, 1 , 2 , 3

police department, criticism of, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

Gray, Freddie, 1

Green, Derryck, 1

H

Haley, Nikki, 1

Hamilton, Alexander, 1

“

“hands up, don’t shoot” See Ferguson, Missouri

H

Harris, Joel Chandler and “Uncle Remus”, 1

Harris, Justin Ross, prosecution of, 1.1-1.2

Harris, Kamala, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4

Herring, Kenneth, homicide of, 1.1-1.2

Heston, Charlton, and culture war, 1

Heussler, Lowry, 1

Hill, Victor, investigation of, 1.1-1.2

homicide, 1.1-1.2

honor, Southern culture of, 1.1-1.2

Hooks, Mary, 1

hue and cry, 1

I

immigration as proxy for race, 1

Implicit Association Tests (IAT), 1

innocence, presumption of, 1.1-1.2

“

“inside/outside” system of law, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

defined by race, ethnicity, and class, 1

J

Jackson, Andrew, and white yeomanry republic, 1

Jefferson, Thomas

and commercial interests in slavery, 1

and white yeomanry republic, 1

Jennison, Watson W., 1

Jim Crow era, 1 , 2 , 3

law enforcement, influence on, 1 , 2 , 3

vagrancy laws, 1

and voter suppression, 1

white racial perceptions, influence on, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Jindal, Bobby, 1

Johnson, Jackie, 1 , 2 , 3

K

Kelly, William R., 1

King Cotton, 1

Krol, Michael, 1

Ku Klux Klan, 1 , 2

L

Lacey, David, 1

Lacey, Jackie, 1

Laufer, William S., 1

law and order politics, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9.1-9.2 , 10

law enforcement

discretionary nature of, 1.1-1.2

political influence on, 1

See also police

lens of white racial perceptions, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

impact on criminal justice decision-making, 1

impact on private actors in criminal justice system, 1 , 2 , 3

and Tex McIver, 1 , 2 , 3

Liang, Peter, 1.1-1.2

Loewen, James W., 1

Lopez, Brenda, 1

Lopez, Christy, 1

T

The Lost Cause, 1.1-1.2

L

Lynn, Joshua A., 1

M

Martin, Trayvon, 1

mass incarceration, 1.1-1.2

McCollom, William, investigation of, 1.1-1.2

McIver, Claud Lee (Tex) III, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

fear of Black Lives Matter protests, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5

previous felony shooting charges, 1.1-1.2

as proto-Trumpist, 1

McIver, Diane, 1.1-1.2

homicide of, 1

as proto-Trumpist, 1

Mears, Michael, 1

Morgan, Danielle Fuentes, 1

Morgan, J. Tom, 1 , 2

Murphy, Patrick V., 1

N

Native Americans, ethnic cleansing of, 1 , 2

New Jim Crow system of racialized criminal justice, 1

New South, 1

Nisbett, Richard E., 1

O

Obama, Barack, 1 , 2 , 3

Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1

Old Plantation Piedmont Cotton Belt, 1

“

“ordinary people,” influence on law and justice systems, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

See also private actors in criminal justice system

“the other” See classification of humans

P

Packer, Herbert and criminal procedure, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Payne, Hannah and shooting of Kenneth Herring, 1.1-1.2

Peachtree City, Georgia, 1.1-1.2

Pitman, Robert, 1

plea bargain, 1

Plucknett, Theodore, 1

police

culture, 1.1-1.2

duty to bear verbal abuse, 1

enforcement discretion, 1

shootings by, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

shootings of, 1

poor whites, 1

Posner, Richard A., 1

private actors in criminal justice system, 1

citizen’s arrest, 1.1-1.2

citizen’s arrest in Georgia, 1

Propst, Dre, 1 , 2

Putnam County, Georgia

black slave life in, 1

McIver ranch, 1 , 2

Native American cleansing in, 1

plantation aristocracy, 1

R

race

and law of slavery, 1

and mechanism of social order, 1

as “scientific theory”, 1

and slavery, 1.1-1.2

as social construction, 1 , 2

racial perceptions in United States

antebellum slavery, influence of, 1 , 2 , 3

impact on criminal justice decision-making, 1

Jim Crow period, influence of, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2

See also lens of white racial perceptions

racism

defined, 1

laissez-faire racism, 1

unconscious, 1.1-1.2

rice and slavery, 1 , 2

Rice, Tamir, 1

Robbins, Ira P., 1

Roberts, Dorothy E., 1

Rogers, Deravis Caine, 1

Rucker, Clint, 1

S

Sambo art, 1 , 2

Satilla Shores, Georgia, 1.1-1.2

Schiff, Adam B., 1 , 2

Sessions, Jeff, 1 , 2

slave patrols, 1.1-1.2

slavery, 1.1-1.2

and cotton production, 1 , 2.1-2.2

and industrial agricultural commodities, 1

and race, 1.1-1.2

and rice production, 1 , 2

slave societies, 1

and sugar production, 1.1-1.2

Small, Caroline, police shooting of, 1.1-1.2

Smith, Darrin, 1

Smith, Michael J., 1

sorting See classification of humans

T

the “South”, 1.1-1.2

S

Sterling, Alton, 1

Stone, Geoffrey, 1

Stoughton, Seth W., 1

Strauss, David, 1

Subotnik, Daniel, 1

sugar and slavery, 1.1-1.2

Sugar Revolution, 1

sundown towns, 1

T

Thompson, Brent, 1

Torpy, Bill, 1 , 2 , 3

Trump, Donald

anticrime policy, 1.1-1.2

campaign’s appeal to racism, 1.1-1.2

Trumpism, 1 , 2.1-2.2

U

Uncle Remus, 1

unintentional discharge defense, 1.1-1.2

unlikely success, conundrum of, 1

V

victims, alternative views of, 1

video evidence of crime, 1

vigilante, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

voter suppression, 1

W

Walker, Alice, 1

War on Drugs, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Warren Court and due process, 1

Washington, George, 1

Williams, David, 1

Williams, Hubert, 1

Wilson, Darren, 1

Winchester, Statute of, 1

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1

Z

Zamarripa, Patrick, 1

Zarate, Jose Ines Garcia, 1