New Deal Law and Order : How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State / Anthony Gregory.
Gregory, Anthony, author.
2024
E806 .G834 2024
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Title
New Deal Law and Order : How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State / Anthony Gregory.
Author
Gregory, Anthony, author.
ISBN
9780674296749
0674296745
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674296749
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2024]
Copyright
2024
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (336 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674296749 doi
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E806 .G834 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.917
Summary
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.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL MOBILIZATION, 1865-1932
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 "THE MOST LAWLESS NATION"
CHAPTER 2 "ANARCHY OR DESPOTISM"
PART II PERFECTING THE MACHINERY, 1933-1934
Introduction
CHAPTER 3 "THE BASIC IDEA OF DEMOCRACY"
CHAPTER 4 " FEDERAL BULLETS"
PART III THE WAR ON CRIME CONSTITUTION, 1933-1941
Introduction
CHAPTER 5 THE ANTI-CRIME CONSENSUS IN LEGAL THOUGHT
CHAPTER 6 WORSE THAN MURDER Making the War on Drugs
CHAPTER 7 SOUTHERN STRATEGIES
PART IV DISCIPLINE AND WELFARE, 1933-1941
Introduction
CHAPTER 8 BUILDING CARCERAL LIBERALISM
CHAPTER 9 PREVENTION, REPRESSION, AND NEW DEAL CRIMINOLOGY
PART V THE LIBERAL SECURITY STATE, 1935-1945
Introduction
CHAPTER 10 THE NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LAW AND ORDER
CHAPTER 11 ANALOGUES OF WAR
CHAPTER 12 TRIAL BY FIRE
EPILOGUE
ABBREVIATIONS AND INITIALIZATIONS USED IN NOTES
NOTES
ARCHIVAL AND PRIMARY SOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX

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