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The American Response to Professional Crime, 1879-1917

The American Response to Professional Crime, 1879-1917

Hartsfield, Larry K.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Criminology and Penology

CriminologyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0313245037
ISBN13: 9780313245039
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jul 24 1985
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Larry K. Hartsfield explores the impact of professional crime on American culture from multiple viewpoints. During the period under study the criminal played a central role in increasingly popular detective novels and also moved to center stage in serious fiction about the nature of humanity and the development of personality. Through autobiographies, thieves depicted themselves with characteristics that they perceived their audiences to expect. The criminal became especially prominent in a new subgenre of fiction, the literature of exposure, which included reform tracts about corruption in American life and exposes of urban crime and threats against the agrarian ethos. In addition, the thief was analyzed by doctors and sociologists. An extensive bibliography lists thousands of pages of neglected writing about American crime to complete this fascinating study of the American professional thief.

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