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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Authored by Elizabeth Hinton
Narrated by Josh Bloomberg

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

In the United States today, one in every thirty-one 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 incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elizabeth Hinton is an assistant professor of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twenty-century United States.


Josh Bloomberg has recorded audiobooks for most of the major publishers, lending his voice to many different genres. His versatility and acting background have helped him access the styles needed for a variety of works.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: December 6, 2016
ISBN: 9781515984665
Duration: 13 hr, 9 min
Genres: History / General, History / United States / 20th Century, History / United States / General, Political Science / General, Political Science / Public Policy / General, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / General, Social Science / Penology, Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness, Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Sociology / Urban