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Crime, Justice, History

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

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Crime in the U.S. and the institutions for its control are deeply embedded in and shaped by history. The historical origins have often become invisible, and their recovery difficult, but any understanding of the contemporary situation requires historical context. For over twenty-five years Eric H. Monkkonen has worked on some of the puzzles and problems in recovering the history of crime and police. Much of his work has appeared in articles, often in specialized journals or not in English, which this book collects for the first time. In addition to Monkkonen's major published articles, this volume includes several new ones. The topics embrace violence, public disorder, policing, popular culture, and contrasts between the U.S. and Europe. Some articles illuminate special methodological and source issues that challenge historians of criminal justice. As well as dealing with serious crime, this book includes several articles on specifically urban problems and solutions associated with disorder, crime, and poverty. In contrast to the more technical articles, several chapters, which originally appeared as op-ed pieces, show how historical understanding can help address current policy issues in crime and crime control. All too often, current policy debates occur without proper historical background. As a result, old ideas that have been tried and rejected are re-introduced, or new and sometimes simple ideas are ignored.

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Ohio State University Press

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0814209025

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America Becomes Urban

The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780–1980

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

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America Becomes Urban

The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780–1980

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an unexpected and welcome sense of our urban origins. His historically anchored vision of our cities places topics of finance, housing, social mobility, transportation, crime, planning, and growth into a perspective which explains the present in terms of the past and ofers a point from which to plan for the future. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988 with a paperback in 1990.

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0520413881

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Police in Urban America, 1860-1920

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

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Police in Urban America, 1860-1920

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

This book examines the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets.

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Cambridge University Press

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052153125X

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9780521531252

Murder in New York City

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

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Murder in New York City

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

This investigation into urban homicide covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city. Combining statistical evidence with many other documentary sources, the book attempts to uncover the factors behind the statistics.

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Univ of California Press

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0520221885

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The Local State

Public Money and American Cities

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

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The Local State

Public Money and American Cities

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

With the United States on the way to becoming an almost completely urban nation, the financing of cities has become an issue of great urgency; put simply, American cities do not have enough money. This book examines the role of local fiscal policies and fiscal politics in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

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Stanford University Press

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0804724121

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Reconstruction

America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

By: Eric Foner

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Reconstruction

America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

By: Eric Foner

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.

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Harper Collins

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0060937165

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Murder in New York City

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

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Unwilling Idlers

The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada

By: Peter A. Baskerville,Eric W. Sager

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Unwilling Idlers

The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada

By: Peter A. Baskerville,Eric W. Sager

Unwilling Idlers looks at the unemployed and their families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in six Canadian cities: Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Montreal, and Halifax. The authors provide a social profile of the men and women who identified themselves as unemployed, relate the phenomenon of unemployment to family characteristics and life cycles, and explore the importance of geographical location and seasonal occupation as defining characteristics of the unemployed. The authors assess the impact of unemployment on living standards and show how workers and their families tried to cope with the problem."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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0802043208

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America Becomes Urban

The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780–1980

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

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The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780–1980

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The Local State

Public Money and American Cities

By: Eric H. Monkkonen

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Public Money and American Cities

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Crime, Justice, History

Crime, Justice, History

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Police in Urban America, 1860-1920

Police in Urban America, 1860-1920

Murder in New York City

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The Local State

The Local State

Reconstruction

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Murder in New York City

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America Becomes Urban

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