Staying on the Straight and Narrow: Recent Books on Violence, Crime, and the Question of Order in Nineteenth-Century Urban America

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John K. Alexander, Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press 1980). Gunter Barth, City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in NineteenthCentury America (New York: Oxford 1980). Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press 1978). Theodore Hershberg, editor, Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family and Group Experience in the 19th Century (Toronto: Oxford University Press 1981). Jame E. Inciardi and Charles E. Faupel, History and Crime: Implications for Criminal Justice Policy (Beverly Hills: Sage 1980). David R. Johnson, Policing the Urban Underworld: The Impact of Crime on the Development of the American Police, 1800-1887 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1979). Roger Lane, Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident and Murder in 19th Century Philadelphia (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press 1979). John C. Schneider, Detroit and the Problem of Order, 1830-1880: A Geography of Crime, Riot, and Policing (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1980).