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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

Elizabeth Hinton

How did a push for fairness in the sixties turn into the system of mass incarceration, and who chose that path?

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Author
Elizabeth Hinton

Why read it

  • You will see how policies meant to help poor Americans were merged with crime control
  • You will understand that mass incarceration has a political history built by both parties
  • You will ask whether tougher crime strategies delivered the safety they promised

Who it is for

  • A voter or lawmaker thinking about policing and prisons
  • A student of Great Society and civil rights policy
  • A reader who wants the history behind today's justice debates

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. Origins of Mass Incarceration
  3. MAKING MASS INCARCERATION
  4. MAKING THE WAR ON CRIME
  5. MAKING BLACK CRIMINALS
  6. THE WAR ON BLACK POVERTY
  7. A “TOTAL ATTACK” ON DELINQUENCY
  8. A “WAR ON POVERTY”
  9. A “WAR ON CRIME”
  10. LAW AND ORDER IN THE GREAT SOCIETY
  11. “PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1”
  12. THE RETREAT FROM COMMUNITY ACTION
  13. PLANNING THE CRIME WAR
  14. THE RISE OF POLICE ACTION
  15. THE PREEMPTIVE STRIKE
  16. THE CHALLENGES OF CRIME IN A FREE SOCIETY
  17. “PROGRESS OF JUSTICE OR EQUALITY”
  18. THE “INSTITUTIONAL SUBSTITUTE” FOR PARENTS
  19. “SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL”
  20. THE WAR ON BLACK CRIME
  21. THE ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME WAR
  22. THE LEAA AND ITS DISCONTENTS
  23. CRIME WAR ZONES
  24. THE “LONG-RANGE MASTER PLAN”
  25. THE BATTLEGROUNDS OF THE CRIME WAR
  26. THE THEORY OF FOOT PATROL
  27. THE “REIGN OF TERROR” IN DETROIT
  28. THE WAR ON STREET PUSHERS
  29. STING OPERATIONS AND THE WAR ON BLACK PETTY CRIMINALS
  30. JUVENILE INJUSTICE
  31. THE FRAMING OF BLACK “DELINQUENTS”
  32. TREATING “YOUTH AND TROUBLE” AND “RUNAWAYS”
  33. PUNISHING “POTENTIAL CRIMINALS” AND “DELINQUENTS”
  34. “NOTHING WORKS”
  35. URBAN REMOVAL
  36. THE NEW ROOT CAUSE
  37. THE CAREER CRIMINAL PROGRAM
  38. THE WAR ON BLACK GANGS
  39. PREPARING FOR MASS REMOVAL
  40. CRIME CONTROL AS URBAN POLICY
  41. THE DISMANTLING OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION
  42. DEFENSIBLE SPACE
  43. THE NEW DOMESTIC SECURITY
  44. URBAN FIRE
  45. FROM THE WAR ON CRIME TO THE WAR ON DRUGS
  46. ARMING THE TROOPS
  47. PUNITIVE URBAN POLICY
  48. REMAKING BLACK CRIMINALITY
  49. EPILOGUE
  50. Reckoning with the War on Crime

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