From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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...
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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 administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass inca
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ISBN:
9780674737235
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
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