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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Contributor(s): Hinton, Elizabeth (Author)
ISBN: 0674979826     ISBN-13: 9780674979826
Publisher: Harvard University Press
OUR PRICE:   $20.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy
- Social Science | Criminology
Dewey: 364.973
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.45 lbs) 464 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Chronological Period - 1970's
- Chronological Period - 1980's
 
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Publisher Description:

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Favorite Book of the Year

In the United States today, one in every thirty-one 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 traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.

"An extraordinary and important new book."
--Jill Lepore, New Yorker

"Hinton's book is more than an argument; it is a revelation...There are moments that will make your skin crawl...This is history, but the implications for today are striking. Readers will learn how the militarization of the police that we've witnessed in Ferguson and elsewhere had roots in the 1960s."
--Imani Perry, New York Times Book Review

Contributor Bio(s): Hinton, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Hinton is Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.