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1. 1. Their Accomplices Wore Robes

   

   A critical legal history that traces how judges, prosecutors, and other courtroom actors actively shaped and sustained racialized systems of punishment and disenfranchisement from the era of slavery through Jim Crow to the modern carceral state. The book argues that courts and legal doctrines were not neutral arbiters but complicit architects of policies—through rulings, sentencing practices, and procedural decisions—that expanded state power over Black communities. By combining historical narrative, case studies, and legal analysis, it reveals the judiciary’s central role in producing mass incarceration and calls for rethinking the role of legal institutions in achieving racial justice.

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