Risa Goluboff

Vagrant Nation

Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s

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Produktbeschreibung

In Vagrant Nation, Risa Goluboff has found a way to explain how the interaction between 1960s social movements and the courts fundamentally changed both American law and society writ large.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780199768448
• ISBN-10: 0199768447
• Artikelnr.: 47867055

Autorenporträt

Risa L. Goluboff is the John Allan Love Professor of Law, Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of History at the University of Virginia School of Law. She is also the author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. From the Soapbox to the Courthouse
2. The Vagrancy Law Education of Ernest Besig
3. "Shuffling" Sam Thompson and the Liberty End Cafe
4. "For Integration? You're a Vagrant"
5. "Morals Are Flexible from One Generation . . . to Another"
6. "The Most Significant Criminal Case of the Year"
7. Hippies, Hippie Lawyers, and the Challenge of Nonconformity
8. The Beginning of the End of Vagrancy Laws
9. "Vagrancy Is No Crime"
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index