Sherry’s new book, The Punitive Turn in American Life, perhaps
represents the culmination of his life’s work. In it, Sherry charts the
United States’s “punitive turn” — the increasing enmeshment of
“war-fighting” and “crime-fighting,” both rhetorically and materially —
which he insists began in earnest under President Lyndon Johnson. For
Sherry, “Johnson’s equation of the cop and the ‘frontline soldier’” —
amid intertwined crises in Vietnam and in the United States’s
metropolitan centers — signaled “the start of a process whereby
crime-fighting was recast as war-fighting and police as soldiers in a
war.” Drawing on the scholarship of Elizabeth Hinton, among others,
Sherry contends that the Johnson administration “sought to bolster and
militarize law enforcement from above,” a project that fundamentally
blurred the lines between war-making and domestic policing.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/war-making-and-crime-fighting-in-a-punitive-society/
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