From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

About this book

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Favorite Book of the Year

In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.

"An extraordinary and important new book."
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker

"Hinton's book is more than an argument; it is a revelation…There are moments that will make your skin crawl…This is history, but the implications for today are striking. Readers will learn how the militarization of the police that we've witnessed in Ferguson and elsewhere had roots in the 1960s."
—Imani Perry, New York Times Book Review

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Information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780674979826
9780674737235
eBook ISBN
9780674969223
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Origins of Mass Incarceration
  7. Chapter 1. The War on Black Poverty
  8. Chapter 2. Law and Order in the Great Society
  9. Chapter 3. The Preemptive Strike
  10. Chapter 4. The War on Black Crime
  11. Chapter 5. The Battlegrounds of the Crime War
  12. Chapter 6. Juvenile Injustice
  13. Chapter 7. Urban Removal
  14. Chapter 8. Crime Control as Urban Policy
  15. Chapter 9. From the War on Crime to the War on Drugs
  16. Epilogue: Reckoning with the War on Crime
  17. Notes
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Index

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