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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Kai Hinton |
ISBN: | 9780674737235 0674737237 |
OCLC Number: | 1158448635 |
Target Audience: | Specialized. |
Description: | 464 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth Hinton. |
Abstract:
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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