“From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime” by Elizabeth Hinton

Definitive history of how 1960s “Great Society” programs were gradually eclipsed by investment in policing and prisons, especially in Black communities. Hinton uses federal archives to show a bipartisan consensus built mass incarceration under the guise of crime control, even as deindustrialization gutted cities. Illuminates how economic abandonment and criminalization went hand in hand. — Read on archive.org