From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Criminal law, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Social Policy, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
Cover of the book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton, Harvard University Press
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Author: Elizabeth Hinton ISBN: 9780674969209
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: May 9, 2016
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Hinton
ISBN: 9780674969209
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: May 9, 2016
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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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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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