City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)

Willrich uncovers the contested origins and paradoxical consequences of two protean concepts in the cosmopolitan cities of industrial America at the turn of the twentieth century: the modern ideas of social responsibility for crime and the belief that the law should aim for social, not merely individual, justice.Michael Willrich is the author of 'City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)', published 2003 under ISBN 9780521790826 and ISBN 0521790824.