TY - BOOK AU - Gregory,Anthony TI - New Deal law and order: how the war on crime built the modern liberal state SN - 9780674290303 PY - 2024/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England PB - Harvard University Press KW - New Deal, 1933-1939 KW - Law enforcement KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Liberalism KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Social conditions KW - 1933-1945 KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I; The Limits of Liberal Mobilization, 1865-1932 --; "The Most Lawless Nation" --; "Anarchy or Despotism" --; Part II; Perfecting the Machinery, 1933-1934 --; "The Basic Idea of Democracy" --; "Federal Bullets" --; Part III; The War on Crime Constitution, 1933-1941 --; The Anti-Crime Consensus in Legal Thought --; Worse than Murder: Making the War on Drugs --; Southern Strategies --; Part IV; Discipline and Welfare, 1933-1941 --; Building Carceral Liberalism --; Prevention, Repression, and New Deal Criminology --; Part V; The Liberal Security State, 1936-1945 --; The New Political Economy of Law and Order; -- Analogues of War --; Trial by Fire N2 - "Anthony Gregory traces the origins of America's modern law-and-order politics to a surprising source: the New Deal, the crucible of modern liberalism. FDR's tough-on-crime agenda played a crucial role in the New Dealers' reform agenda, which greatly expanded the limits of federal power and fundamentally altered the future of the state."-- ER -