From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime : : The Making of Mass Incarceration in America / / Elizabeth Hinton.
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 r...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) :; 11 halftones |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Origins of Mass Incarceration -- 1. The War on Black Poverty -- 2. Law and Order in the Great Society -- 3. The Preemptive Strike -- 4. The War on Black Crime -- 5. The Battlegrounds of the Crime War -- 6. Juvenile Injustice -- 7. Urban Removal -- 8. Crime Control as Urban Policy -- 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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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674969223 9783110638585 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674969223 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Elizabeth Hinton. |