City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago

by Michael Willrich

Book Overview

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...

• 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"