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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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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Table of Contents:
- 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