Getting tough : welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America

Getting tough : welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America / Julilly Kohler-Hausmann.

"In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social upheaval on racialized deviants that the state was not accountable to s...

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Main Author:	Kohler-Hausmann, Julilly (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Series:	Politics and society in modern America.
Subjects:	Public welfare > United States > History. HISTORY / United States / General. Public welfare United States USA Electronic books. History
Online Access:	Click for online access

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