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 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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hinton, Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Crime prevention > United States > History > 20th century.
Crime > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Imprisonment > United States.
Urban policy > United States > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Origins of Mass Incarceration
  • 1. The War on Black Poverty
  • 2. Law and Order in the Great Society
  • 3. The Preemptive Strike
  • 4. The War on Black Crime
  • 5. The Battlegrounds of the Crime War
  • 6. Juvenile Injustice
  • 7. Urban Removal
  • 8. Crime Control as Urban Policy
  • 9. From the War on Crime to the War on Drugs
  • Epilogue: Reckoning with the War on Crime
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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