From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime is written by Elizabeth Hinton and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674969200 (ISBN 10) and 9780674969209 (ISBN 13).

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.