{"product_id":"9780674979826-from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime","title":"From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Making of Mass Incarceration in America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCo-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Favorite Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Favorite Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An extraordinary and important new book.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jill Lepore, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hinton’s  book is more than an argument; it is a revelation…There are moments  that will make your skin crawl…This is history, but the implications for  today are striking. Readers will learn how the militarization of the  police that we’ve witnessed in Ferguson and elsewhere had roots in the  1960s.”\u003cbr\u003e—Imani Perry, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450578612598,"sku":"9780674979826","price":19.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41144284_f200feea-fcd5-4e7c-a2df-c095ba3c8858.jpg?v=1778120180","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674979826-from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}