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War on crime : bandits, G-men, and the politics of mass culture /
War on Crime revises the history of the New Deal transformation and suggests a new model for political historyone which recognizes that cultural phenomena and the political realm produce, between them, an idea of "the state." The war on crime was fought with guns and pens, movies and legis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prohibition, crime, and federal policing
- Scientific policing, masculinity, and bureau reform
- The making of a crime wave
- Romance, bandit identity, and the rise of celebrity bandits
- Kidnapping, federal policing, and the role of the public in the war on crime
- John Dillinger as political actor
- The Barker-Karpis Gang, surveillance, and the victory of federal policing.