What makes for the need for disproportionate punishment? What allows for or motivates this kind of divisive, racist community formation through disproportionate punishment? And why the importance of visible public punishment in the creation of community identity?
Racism and liberalism seem to have combined here in the most American way of course: the right to free humiliating racist expression must be protected at the expense of destruction of black human being.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vdx7YilNd2k
Garland, D. (2005b) 'Penal excess and surplus meaning: public torture lynchings in 20th century America', Law and Society Review, 39.
see Jackie Goldsby's book on lynching as well.
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