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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1. Verfasser: Hinton, Elizabeth (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2016]
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Zusammenfassung: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 the civil rights era
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (464 Seiten) 11 halftones
ISBN:9780674969223
DOI:10.4159/9780674969223

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