From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime The Making of Mass Incarceration in America |
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| Author:
| Hinton, Elizabeth |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-73723-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $87.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.