From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

Author	: Elizabeth Hinton
File Size	: 53,9 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 09 May 2016
ISBN	: 9780674737235
Pages	: 460 pages

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton Book PDF Summary

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.

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