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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Kai Hinton |
ISBN: | 9780674737235 0674737237 |
OCLC Number: | 1120396894 |
Description: | 449 pàgines ; 25 cm |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth Hinton. |
Abstract:
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.
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