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From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Urban policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Crime prevention > United States > History > 20th century.
Crime > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Imprisonment > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.