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

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"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 originated with the Reagan...

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Main Author: Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
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.
Crime > Political aspects.
Crime prevention.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects.
Imprisonment.
Urban policy.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:449 pages : photographs ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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