Vagrant Nation - Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s

Zusatztext With limpid and stylish prose and an eye for illustrative detail, Goluboff traces how the 'vagrancy law regime' came to be challenged and ultimately eliminated ... this compelling history, with its strong narrative flow, ranges widely beyond the chambers of the Supreme Court, offering a social history of legal change ... Vagrant Nation is a necessary contribution to the history of police and social movements in the postwar United States Informationen zum Autor Risa L. Goluboff is the John Allan Love Professor of Law, Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of History at the University of Virginia School of Law. She is also the author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights. Klappentext In Vagrant Nation, Risa Goluboff has found a way to explain how the interaction between 1960s social movements and the courts fundamentally changed both American law and society writ large. Zusammenfassung In Vagrant Nation, Risa Goluboff has found a way to explain how the interaction between 1960s social movements and the courts fundamentally changed both American law and society writ large. Inhaltsverzeichnis TK

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• Authors: Risa Goluboff, Risa (Professor of Law and History Goluboff, Risa L. Goluboff
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2016
• EAN: 9780199768448
• ISBN: 978-0-19-976844-8
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Criminal law & procedure, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Social Law, Law & society, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Law and society, sociology of law, Social law and Medical law