The American way of crime /
An unconventional history of the United States traces crime in America from the Puritans through Watergate and considers the special-interest groups who have at one time or another defined what is legal and what is not.
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New York :
Putnam,
1980.
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Table of Contents:
- Crime in the colonies
- Harmony vs. blasphemy
- Common bawds and praying Indians
- Poor witches, prosperous devils
- Pirates and profiteers
- Counterfeiters and regulators
- Convicts, concubines, and corrupt officials
- Smugglers and conspirators
- Crime in the New Republic
- Poverty, property, and prisons
- Gangs, goons, and ward heelers
- Desperation on the borderlands
- The crimes of slave power
- The crimes of crime prevention
- The price and profit of war
- Crime in the expanding nation
- White terror and "honest graft"
- Law vs. justice
- Family feuds, cattle wars, and gunslingers
- Red, yellow, black
- Shady ladies
- The big apple
- Crime in the superstate
- Chicago : no quarter, either way
- 1919
- The fruits of temperance
- The boondock underworld
- The guns of Dearborn
- Corporations and conspiracies
- The crime regulators
- Organized but also institutionalized
- The law of the streets, dead end.