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- Title
"A War within Our Own Boundaries": Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Rise of the Carceral State.
- Authors
Hinton, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The article discusses the relationship between the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's social policy known as Great Society and mass incarceration in the U.S. (referred to as the carceral state) from the 1960s through the early 1970s. An overview of Johnson's crime policy, including in regard to the relations between urban African Americans and police, the impact of riots on Johnson's crime policy and the president's anti-poverty efforts known as the War on Poverty, is provided.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GREAT Society; MASS incarceration; JOHNSON, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; IMPRISONMENT; CRIME; RIOTS; URBAN African Americans; POLICE; GOVERNMENT policy; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2015, Vol 102, Issue 1, p100
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jahist/jav328