City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era ChicagoWhat 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. |
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Contents
The Price of Justice | 3 |
A Managerial Revolution | 29 |
Rethinking Responsibility for a Social Age | 59 |
Socializing the Law | 96 |
Practices | 117 |
Socialized Law in Action | 119 |
Keep Sober Work and Support His Family The Court of Domestic Relations | 128 |
To Protect Her from the Greed as well as the Passions of Man The Morals Court | 172 |
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| Title | City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society |
| Author | Michael Willrich |
| Editor | Christopher Tomlins |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 052179403X, 9780521794039 |
| Length | 332 pages |
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