Gotham's War within a War (eBook)

Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City

Emily Brooks (Autor)

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2023
258 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7660-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A surprising history unfolded in New Deal and World War IIera New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city's priorities toward liberal reform. La Guardia's approach to low-level policing anticipated later trends in law enforcement, including "e;broken windows"e; theory and "e;stop and frisk"e; policy. Police officers worked to preserve urban order by controlling vice, including juvenile delinquency, prostitution, gambling, and the "e;disorderly"e; establishments that officials believed housed these activities. This mode of policing was central to La Guardia's influential vision of urban governance, but it was met with resistance from the Black New Yorkers, youth, and working-class women it primarily targeted. The mobilization for World War II introduced new opportunities for the NYPD to intensify policing and criminalize these groups with federal support. In the 1930s these communities were framed as perils to urban order; during the militarized war years, they became a supposed threat to national security itself. Emily M. Brooks recasts the evolution of urban policing by revealing that the rise of law-and-order liberalism was inseparable from the surveillance, militarism, and nationalism of war.

Autor

Emily M. Brooks is a full-time curriculum writer at the New York Public Library's Center for Educators and Schools. She received her PhD in history from the Graduate Center at the City University in New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: adam clayton powell jr. • Ann Petry • anti-vice policing • Black freedom movement in mid-twentieth century urban north • City Patrol Corps • construction of criminality • disorderly spaces • Fiorello La Guardia • Gambling • Harlem uprising of 1935 • Harlem uprising of 1943 • Juvenile Delinquency • New York City • New York City police corruption • New York City Police Department • NYPD • People’s Voice • police brutality in New York • Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine • police discretion • Prostitution • Seabury investigation, 1930s New York City • Social Protection Division • Tammany Democrats • twentieth-century liberalism • wartime campaigns against venereal diseases • World War II home front
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7660-5 / 1469676605
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7660-9 / 9781469676609