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

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (449 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : origins of mass incarceration -- The war on Black poverty -- Law and order in the Great Society -- The preemptive strike -- The war on Black crime -- The battlegrounds of the crime war -- Juvenile injustice -- Urban removal -- Crime control as urban policy -- From the war on crime to the war on drugs -- Epilogue : reckoning with the war on crime Summary 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 with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, the author 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. Anticipating future crime, policy makers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance. By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realization of the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s. -- Adapted from publisher's description How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? The author 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-432) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 6, 2021) digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Urban policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century Crime prevention -- United States -- History -- 20th century Crime -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Imprisonment -- United States Mass incarceration -- United States. Crime -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Crime -- Political aspects Crime prevention Criminal justice, Administration of -- Political aspects Imprisonment Urban policy Gefängnis Kriminalisierung Strafrecht Stadtentwicklung United States USA Etats-Unis. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674969223 0674969227

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