From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

How did the land of the free become the home of the worldâ€™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 Johnsonâ€™s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harvard University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-05-02
Format Kindle eBook

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