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From the War of Poverty to the War of Crime Book Cover

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime is a historical book written by Elizabeth Hinton distributed by Harvard University Press in 2016. Elizabeth Hinton is an assistant professor in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Plot

Elizabeth Hinton’s “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime” clarifies the strategy move not long after a section of milestone Civil Rights enactment during the 1960s from social government assistance to criminal equity as a system for understanding suffering racial disparities, poverty, and unrest. That move prompted the militarization of police offices and the over-policing of metropolitan networks — particularly those loaded up with youthful, people of color — and the damaging, and now and again deadly results that we see today. Each book gives an imperative setting to understanding the police killings and the fights against them. [1]

Controversy

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by historian Elizabeth Hinton historicizes these claims, that structural racism in the criminal justice system is a vital part of white supremacy in the contemporary United States. As she uncovers how policymakers from the 1960s to the 1980s conjoined ideas about welfare, criminalization, and punishment to rationalize the development of an arrangement of mass imprisonment of minorities. Hinton's investigation also sets out to describe how the "diffusion of crime control techniques" affected the "everyday lives" of African Americans, who in turn fought back against criminalization and offered their own answers for the urban crisis.[2] In this book, Hinton leaves no doubt that racism was at the core of the new urban carceralism, a furious pushback against rebellions in Watts and different urban areas that brought about the capture of a huge number of African Americans and new strategies of social control, from velvet glove techniques of cooptation and management, to an iron fist of counter-insurgency operations tested in Viet Nam. She uncovers some telling models: Nixon’s aside to his chief of staff in 1969 that “the whole problem is really the blacks…. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to”; Reagan’s statement to the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 1981 that “only our deep moral values and strong institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.” [3]

References

  1. Mineo, Liz. A reading list on issues of rac. The Harvard Gazette. 15 June 2020. Retrieved February 2 2021.
  2. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (review). Journal of Social History. Retrieved February 2 2021.
  3. Platt, Tony Review of Elizabeth Hinton's "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime". History News Network. 18 August 2016. Retrieved February 2 2021.