Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, “Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America” (Princeton UP, 2017)

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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 serve or represent. Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in...

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