The Routledge History of Crime in America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, James.

Contributor:

Miller, Vivien.

Series:

Routledge Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--United States--History.

Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (827 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume's 28 chapters reflect the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established scholars working on American crime histories today.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributor Biographies

Introduction

PART I: Major Themes in American Crime History

1. Defining, Recording, and Measuring Crime in the United States from Colonial Times to the Present

2. Theories of Crime in American History

3. Crime and Popular Culture in American History

4. Policing Crime in American History

5. Punishment in America: Innovation, Continuity, Recycling, and Technological Transformations

PART II: Crime and American Culture

6. Transatlantic Felony: Convict Transportation and Representations of Criminality in the British American Colonies

7. Depictions of Crime in American Cinema, 1903-1936

8. Crime, Popular Culture, and the Media in the Twenty-First Century

PART III: Histories of American Violence

9. "The Penalty of a Tyrant's Law": Slavery and Crime in the Nineteenth-Century American South

10. Crime and Punishment in a Nineteenth-Century Western Community

11. "The American City is Becoming a Menace to State and Nation": Urban Crime in the Age of Jim Crow and Mass Immigration

12. American Serial Killers

PART IV: Class, Gender, and Crime in the Long Nineteenth Century

13. "Relieving the City from Beggars and the Poor": The Criminalization of Poverty and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century

14. Making Women Visible: Gender, Race, and Crime in Nineteenth-Century America

15. White-Collar Crime in the Long Nineteenth Century

PART V: Organized Crime

16. Pirates and Piracy in Colonial America and the Atlantic World

17. Organised Crime and Race in the United States, 1865-1941

18. "Wicked" and "Sham": The Evolution of "Organized Crime" and Its Control in the United States, 1929-Present

19. Women and Organized Crime

PART VI: Crime and Policing.

20. State-Building, Settler Colonialism, and Policing the Nineteenth-Century American West

21. Federal Crimes and Policing in the Early Twentieth Century

22. Race, Crime, and Policing in the United States from the War on Crime to the War on Drugs

PART VII: Science, Technology and Crime

23. Scientific Knowledge and Crime in Nineteenth-Century America

24. Crime Scene Photography in the Twentieth Century

PART VIII: Crime and Punishment

25. Penal Reform in the Early United States

26. Capital Crimes and the Death Penalty, 1860-1960

PART IX: Crime, Politics and Governance Since the 1960s

27. Conflict or Consensus? The Politicization of Law and Order in the United States Since 1960

28. Governing through Crime in the Twenty-First Century

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781040258088

1040258085

9781003300151

1003300154

9781040258156

1040258158

OCLC:

1474612161