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

Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983- author

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\"In the United States today, 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 with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton [posits that] the rise of mass incarceration [can be traced] to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity, but these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9780674737235, 0674737237, 9780674979826

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