War on Crime
Gangsters, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture
By Claire Bond Potter
(Rutgers University Press, Paperback, 9780813524870, 264pp.)
Publication Date: January 1998
Categories: Criminology, Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement
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Description
The first book to look at the structural, legal, and cultural aspects of J. Edgar Hoover's war on crime in the 1930s, a New Deal campaign which forged new links between citizenship, federal policing, and the ideal of centralized government. WAR ON CRIME reminds us of how and why our worship of violent celebrity hero G-men and gangsters came about and how we now are reaping the results. 10 photos.
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