From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America / Elizabeth Hinton.
"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 or...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.