{"product_id":"vagrant-nation-police-power-constitutional-change-and-the-making-of-the-1960s-9780190699048","title":"Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s","description":"In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-played a key role not only in maintaining safety and order but also in enforcing conventional standards of morality and\u003cbr\u003epropriety. A person could be arrested for sporting a beard, making a speech, or working too little. Yet by the end of the 1960s, vagrancy laws were discredited and American society was fundamentally transformed. What happened? In \u003cem\u003eVagrant Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, Risa Goluboff provides a groundbreaking account of\u003cbr\u003ethis transformation. By reading into the history of the 1960s through the lens of vagrancy laws, Goluboff shows how constitutional challenges to long-standing police practices were at the center of the multiple movements that made the 1960s. Vagrancy laws were so broad and flexible that they made\u003cbr\u003eit possible for the police to arrest anyone out of place in any way: Beats and hippies; Communists and Vietnam War protestors; racial minorities, civil rights activists, and interracial couples; prostitutes, single women, and gay men, lesbians, and other sexual minorities. As hundreds of these\u003cbr\u003evagrants and their lawyers claimed that vagrancy laws were unconstitutional, the laws became a flashpoint for debates about radically different visions of order and freedom. In Goluboff's compelling portrayal, the legal campaign against vagrancy laws becomes a sweeping legal and social history of\u003cbr\u003ethe 1960s. Touching on movements advocating civil rights, peace, gay rights, welfare rights, and cultural revolution, \u003cem\u003eVagrant Nation\u003c\/em\u003e provides insight relevant to this battle, as well as the battle over the legacy of the 1960s' transformations themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Risa Goluboff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190699048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRisa Goluboff \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law and the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law. She is also the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Promise of Civil Rights. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39988407435379,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fc2eb156-fc27-4b58-b718-778d6c3ab92c.jpg?v=1649771225","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/vagrant-nation-police-power-constitutional-change-and-the-making-of-the-1960s-9780190699048","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}