Books by Elizabeth Hinton

A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America's past and present, by one of the leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration in the US

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.