From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America /

In the United States, one in every 31 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 wit...

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Main Author: Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016
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