City of Courts - Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago

This 2003 book looks at contesting concepts of crime, and social justice in nineteenth-century industrial America.

List of contents

Part I. Transformations: 1. The price of justice; 2. A managerial revolution; 3. Rethinking responsibility for a social age; 4. Socializing the law; Part II. Practices: Interlude: Socialized Law in Action; 5. 'Keep sober, work, and support his family': the court of domestic relations; 6. 'To protect her from the greed as well as the passions of man': the morals court; 7. 'Upon the threshold of manhood': the boys' court; 8. 'Keep the life stream pure': the psychopathic laboratory; Part III. Misgivings: 9. America's first war on crime; Afterword.

Summary

In this 2003 book, Willrich uncovers the contested origins and paradoxical consequences of two protean concepts in the cosmopolitan cities of industrial America at the turn of the twentieth century: the modern ideas of social responsibility for crime and the belief that the law should aim for social, not merely individual, justice.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Willrich
• Assisted by: Christopher Tomlins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2011
• EAN: 9780521790826
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79082-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 760 g
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology