@article{1562162,
      recid = {1562162},
      author = {Gregory, Anthony,},
      title = {New Deal Law and Order : How the War on Crime Built the  Modern Liberal State /},
      pages = {1 online resource (336 p.)},
      abstract = {A historian traces the origins of the modern law-and-order  state to a surprising source: the liberal policies of the  New Deal.Most Americans remember the New Deal as the  crucible of modern liberalism. But while it is most closely  associated with Roosevelt's efforts to end the Depression  and provide social security for the elderly, we have failed  to acknowledge one of its most enduring legacies: its war  on crime. Crime policy, Anthony Gregory argues, was a  defining feature of the New Deal. Tough-on-crime policies  provided both the philosophical underpinnings and the  institutional legitimacy necessary to remake the American  state.New Deal Law and Order follows President Franklin  Roosevelt, Attorney General Homer Cummings, and their war  on crime coalition, which overcame the institutional and  political challenges to the legitimacy of national law  enforcement. Promises of law and order helped to manage  tensions among key Democratic Party factions--organized  labor, Black Americans, and white Southerners. Their  anticrime program, featuring a strengthened criminal code,  an empowered FBI, and the first federal war on marijuana,  was essential to the expansion of national authority  previously stymied on constitutional grounds. This nascent  carceral liberalism both accommodated a redoubled emphasis  on rehabilitation and underwrote a massive wave of prison  construction across the country. Alcatraz, an unforgiving  punitive model, was designed to be a "symbol of the triumph  of law and order." This emergent security state eventually  transformed both liberalism and federalism, and in the  process reoriented the terms of US political debate for  decades to come.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1562162},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674296749},
}