From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America - Softcover

Hinton, Elizabeth

 
9780674979826: From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674979826 ISBN 13: 9780674979826
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2017

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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

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Elizabeth Hinton is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University and Professor of Law at Yale Law School. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime received widespread acclaim and was named a New York Times Notable Book and one of Oprah Magazine's "Books to Better Understand the History of Racism in America."

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674979826
ISBN 13 
9780674979826
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Anzahl der Seiten
449
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