From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
How did the land of the free become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
How did the land of the free become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

by Elizabeth Hinton
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

by Elizabeth Hinton

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How did the land of the free become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674969209
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 05/09/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 351,240
File size: 2 MB

Table of Contents

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction: Origins of Mass Incarceration Chapter 1. The War on Black Poverty Chapter 2. Law and Order in the Great Society Chapter 3. The Preemptive Strike Chapter 4. The War on Black Crime Chapter 5. The Battlegrounds of the Crime War Chapter 6. Juvenile Injustice Chapter 7. Urban Removal Chapter 8. Crime Control as Urban Policy Chapter 9. From the War on Crime to the War on Drugs Epilogue: Reckoning with the War on Crime Notes Acknowledgments Index
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