From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America /

In the United States, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016
Temas:
1900-1999
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Urban policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Crime prevention > United States > History > 20th century.
Crime > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Imprisonment > United States.
Mass incarceration > United States.
Crime > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Crime > Political aspects.
Crime prevention.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects.
Imprisonment.
Urban policy.
Gefängnis
Kriminalisierung
Strafrecht
Stadtentwicklung
United States.
USA
Etats-Unis.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : origins of mass incarceration
  • The war on Black poverty
  • Law and order in the Great Society
  • The preemptive strike
  • The war on Black crime
  • The battlegrounds of the crime war
  • Juvenile injustice
  • Urban removal
  • Crime control as urban policy
  • From the war on crime to the war on drugs
  • Epilogue : reckoning with the war on crime.

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