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Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South James J. Wirtz the sustainability of rural communitiesThe history of white supremacy and criminal justice Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions of local sovereignty. Friction between the demands of white supremacy and white southern suspicions of state power created a distinctive