Raven Thorne examines how America's 1960s–1980s crime wave, when murders and violent crimes surged to historic peaks, created enduring infrastructures of fear—gated communities, mass incarceration, privatized security—that outlasted the violence itself, reshaping the nation's social contract and revealing who the walls truly protect.

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