From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
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Author | : Elizabeth Hinton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2016-05-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674737235 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674737237 |
Rating | : 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by : Elizabeth Hinton
Book excerpt: 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.