City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago
(Part of the Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Series)
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What could be more liberal than believing in society's responsibility for crime--that crime is less the product of free will than of poverty and other social forces beyond the individual's control? And what could be more progressive than the belief that the law should aim for social, not merely individual, justice? This work of social, cultural, and legal history uncovers the contested origins and paradoxical consequences of the two protean concepts in the cosmopolitan cities of industrial America at the turn of the twentieth century.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052179403X
ISBN13:9780521794039
Release Date:March 2003
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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