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Vagrant Nation : Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of The 1960s.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (481 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190262266
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vagrant NationDDC classification:
  • 345.73/0248
LOC classification:
  • KF9450 -- .G658 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Vagrant Nation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. From the Soapbox to the Courthouse -- 2. The Vagrancy Law Education of Ernest Besig -- 3. Shuffling Sam Thompson and the Liberty End Café -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: 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. By look at the changing views regarding a minor type of crime-vagrancy-Goluboff shows how the courts were cast directly into the midst of the turmoil sweeping the nation.
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Cover -- Vagrant Nation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. From the Soapbox to the Courthouse -- 2. The Vagrancy Law Education of Ernest Besig -- 3. Shuffling Sam Thompson and the Liberty End Café -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

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. By look at the changing views regarding a minor type of crime-vagrancy-Goluboff shows how the courts were cast directly into the midst of the turmoil sweeping the nation.

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