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From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America / Elizabeth Hinton.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Urban policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Urban policy.
- Crime prevention--United States--History--20th century.
- Crime prevention.
- Crime--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Crime.
- Imprisonment--United States.
- Imprisonment.
- Crime--Political aspects.
- History.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- CAMBRIDGE : HARVARD UNIV PRESS, 2016.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Origins of mass incarceration
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780674969223
- 0674969227
- Publisher Number:
- 99981334264
- 40025902219
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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