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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime : The Making of Mass Incarceration in America / Elizabeth Hinton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (464 p.) : 11 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674969223
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9950
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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