@article{1480466, recid = {1480466}, author = {Hinton, Elizabeth, }, title = {From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime : The Making of Mass Incarceration in America /}, pages = {1 online resource (464 p.) :}, abstract = {How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? 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.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480466}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969223}, }