The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
(Part of the Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series)
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The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that this shift began with the "tough on crime" policies advocated by Republicans and southern Democrats beginning in the late 1960s, which sought longer...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199892806
ISBN13:9780199892808
Release Date:August 2014
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"
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