From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
Author | : Elizabeth Hinton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2016-05-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674737235 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674737237 |
Rating | : 4/5 (237 Downloads) |
Download or read book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime written by Elizabeth Hinton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.