5. The Battlegrounds of the Crime War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Origins of Mass Incarceration 1
4. 1. The War on Black Poverty 27
5. 2. Law and Order in the Great Society 63
6. 3. The Preemptive Strike 96
7. 4. The War on Black Crime 134
8. 5. The Battlegrounds of the Crime War 180
9. 6. Juvenile Injustice 218
10. 7. Urban Removal 250
11. 8. Crime Control as Urban Policy 276
12. 9. From the War on Crime to the War on Drugs 307
13. Epilogue: Reckoning with the War on Crime 333
14. Notes 343
15. Acknowledgments 433
16. Index 437