City of Courts by Michael Willrich
What could be more 'liberal' than the modern idea of social 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? In this work of social, cultural, and legal history, first published in 2003, Michael Willrich uncovers the contested origins and paradoxical consequences of these two protean concepts in the cosmopolitan cities of industrial America at the turn of the twentieth century. In Progressive Era Chicago, social activists, judges, and working-class families seeking justice transformed criminal courts into laboratories of progressive democracy. Willrich argues that this progressive effort to 'socialize' urban justice redefined American liberalism and the rule of law, laying an urban seedbed for the modern administrative welfare state.-
Before Dred Scott
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The Crisis of Imprisonment
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Final Freedom
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The Deviant Prison
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Gangster of New York
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Thresholds of Accusation
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
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The Law of the Whale Hunt
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The Jurisprudence of Style
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Gender Remade
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The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War
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Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox
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Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 17901900
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Conjugal Misconduct
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Injury Impoverished
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A Judgment for Solomon
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Slavery and Sacred Texts
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Law's Imagined Republic
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The Turn to Process
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Owning Ideas
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Family, Law, and Inheritance in America
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The Bondsman's Burden
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Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004
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The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State
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Recalibrating Reform
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The Racketeer's Progress
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From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime
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The Forgotten Emancipator
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Jim Crow Moves North
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Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
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Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection
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Bonds of Empire
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Making the Modern American Fiscal State
'Willrich's account is complex, insightful, and wide-ranging; City of Courts incorporates the history of science, legal history and political history in a narrative that casts new light on crime and punishment in the second largest city in the United States' The Times Literary Supplement
Michael Willrich is the award-winning author of City of Courts. He is an associate professor of history at Brandeis University and a former journalist who wrote for The Washington Monthly, City Paper, The New Republic, and other magazines. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521790826 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521790824 |
| Title | City of Courts |
| Author | Michael Willrich |
| Series | Cambridge Historical Studies In American Law And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2003-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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