Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Baumler, Ellen, “Justice as an Afterthought: Women and the Montana Prison System,” Montana, 58 (Summer 2008), 41–59. Heavily illustrated.
Brackett, John M., “Cutting Costs by Cutting Lives: Prisoner Health and the Abolishment of Florida’s Convict-Lease System,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 69–83.
Cutter, Barbara, “The Female Indian Killer Memorialized: Hannah Duston and the Nineteenth-Century Feminization of American Violence,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 10–33.
McKnight, Roger, “The Dinkytown Murder: A Study of Violence, Media Response, and Immigrant Assimilation in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (April 2008), 57–107.
Sadler, Richard W., “The Spencer-Pike Affair,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 79–93.
Tomlins, Christopher, “Necessities of State: Police, Sovereignty, and the Constitution,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 47–63.
Waldrep, Christopher, “National Policing, Lynching, and Constitutional Change,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Aug. 2008), 589–626.
Weaver, Vesla M., “Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 230–65.
Andrews, Norwood Henry, III, “Sunbelt Justice: Politics, the Professions, and the History of Sentencing and Corrections in Texas since 1968” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3278089.
Holub, Rona L., “Fredericka ‘Marm’ Mandelbaum, ‘Queen of Fences’: The Rise and Fall of a Female Immigrant Criminal Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century New York City” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285090.
Kramer, Alisa Sarah, “William H. Parker and the Thin Blue Line: Politics, Public Relations, and Policing in Postwar Los Angeles” (American University, 2007). Order No. DA3286654.
O’Deane, Matthew David, “Effectiveness of Gang Injunction in California: A Multicounty 25-Year Study” (Walden University, 2007). Order No. DA3283460.
Reynolds, Todd, “Security Exchanges: The Rise of Systematic Criminal Justice in the Gilded Age U.S. Imagination” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3281591.
Smith, Nathaniel Lee, “‘Cured of the Habit by Force’: The United States and the Global Campaign to Punish Drug Consumers, 1898–1970” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289140.
Mays, Thomas D., Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson’s Civil War. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xiv, 194 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2860-4.)
Moore, Paula, Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics in New Mexico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 203 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4341-3.)
Wagner, Allen E., Good Order and Safety: A History of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 1861–1906. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 2008. xviii, 532 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-883982-63-8.)
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