Elizabeth Hinton is Professor of History, African American Studies & Law at Yale and the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.
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Elizabeth Hinton is Professor of History, African American Studies & Law at Yale and the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.
A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement.
A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence.
The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.
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