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 the civil rights era.

About the author

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.”

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Hinton, Hinton Elizabeth
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780674979826
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97982-6
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Sociology, Law, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Criminal law & procedure, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Legal History, History of the Americas, Urban communities, Penology & punishment, Sentencing & punishment, Causes & Prevention Of Crime