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Informationen zum Autor By Martin Alan Greenberg Klappentext Renaissance Lawman details the life, education path, and career choices of Eliot Howland Lumbard -an all too forgotten pioneer of the criminal justice field-and how he helped reform and develop the American Criminal Justice system into what we know today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: The Early Years and WW II Service Chapter1. Introduction: An OverviewFew people alive today know about Eliot Howland Lumbard or the names of those of his associates who worked with him to establish an academic field that is now taught in thousands of colleges and universities throughout the world and a number of other substantial projects concerned with the administration of justice. He never became a judge, elected official, police commissioner, or college president. Nonetheless, in the latter half of the 20th century, he was particularly active and received substantial notoriety for his crime control programs during the late fifties, the sixties and early seventies. Moreover, his achievements are all the more remarkable because his formative years showed little indication of his future pursuits in the fields of justice administration and policy formation. It is an unfortunate fact that Lumbard's official appearance on this stage was so brief since many of his areas of concern still plague our system of justice. This chapter traces significant American historical and political events leading-up to the period oftin1e when Lumbard took center stage pursuing New York's criminal justice policy-making during the mid-1960s. An overview of Lumbard's career is presented as well as brief sketches of earlier reformers, including Asser Levy, Rev. Charles Henry Parkhurst, and August Vollmer.Chapter 2.Growing-Up in Fairhaven, MassachusettsLumbard grew up during the late twenties and thirties. It was the era of the Great Depression, but Eliot's dad was able to earn a living as a foreman in nearby factories. It was also the age before television when radio listening was a major pastime. His hometown of Fairhaven is located in a waterfront area surrounded by small inlets and river coves with outlets to the sea, the perfect landings for the fast motor-crafts favored and used by rumrunners and bootleggers in the era of Prohibition which ended in 1933. Lumbard's family owned a 25 foot catboat whose distinguishing feature is an enorn1ous sail that is attached to a high mast in the bow of the boat. During his legal career, and towards the end of his life, seafaring and maritime law was to play major roles in his life. His brother Roger, five years older than Eliot, was an avid sailor, but at age 17 died in an accident in a laboratory at the New Bedford Textile School while engaged in a chemistry experiment. This event traumatized Lumbard's mother and was a severe blow for young Eliot who idolized his brother. The brothers had a passion for making model boats, that would be mounted and displayed cut lengthwise and Eliot had an early love for boyhood adventure books which he shared with other children in his neighborhood by organizing his own lending library.The chapter includes information about Eliot's ancestor John Howland. The latter was a distant relative on his mother's side who was born about 1599 and came on the Mayflower in 1620 as an indentured manservant of John Carver, Plymouth Colony's first elected governor. Eliot's mother was interested in genealogy and named her youngest son after John Alden and bestowed the nan1e "Howland" as Eliot's middle name. Other topics covered include details concerning the beautiful architecture of Fairhaven's high school and library. These splendid public facilities came into being due to Henry Huttleston Rogers, the town's wealthiest and most illustrious citizen and benefactor who made his fortune in the oil refinery business, becoming a leader at Standard Oil. Such surroundings may have contributed to Lumbard's desire to become...
