From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
| Author | : Elizabeth Hinton |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2016-05-09 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780674737235 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0674737237 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by : Elizabeth Hinton
Download or read book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime written by Elizabeth Hinton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
