City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) Book

What could be more "liberal" than the modern idea of social responsibility for crimeo 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.Read More

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  • 052179403X
  • 9780521794039
  • Michael Willrich
  • 17 March 2003
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 332
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