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
ISBN-10
0674969200
ISBN-13
9780674969209
Category
History
Pages
459
Language
English
Published
2016-05-09
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Elizabeth Hinton

Description

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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