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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016)

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ID20048029
AuthorsElizabeth Hinton (0009-0005-3372-9257, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages98-106
Publication date2020-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRacism in America (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHarvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.4159/9780674251656-013
OpenAlexW2593380895
ISBN9780674251656
LanguageEN
Citations received79

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

Criminology · Development economics · Economics · Mass incarceration · Political science · Poverty · Prison · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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