Revolutions per minute : the automobile and a national transformation -- Calling all cars : police modernization and communication -- Fifths and the fourth : prohibition and searches -- The automotive age of majority : youth, drivers' licenses, and legal responsibility -- City planning, suburbanization, and vehicle patrol -- Discretion and disparities in car-based criminal justice -- Interstate crime : federalism, highways, and criminal justice -- MADD prosecutors? : drunk driving and prosecutorial discretion -- Roadblocks : collateral consequences and driving privileges -- Civil asset forfeiture and the limits of the criminal law -- Watching the wheels -- Monitoring mobility.
Summary:
"This book tracks the history of the car alongside the history of crime and criminal justice in the United States, demonstrating how the quick and numerous developments in criminal law corresponded to the steadily rising prominence, and now established supremacy, of the automobile. Spencer Headworth brings together research from sociology, psychology, criminology, political science, legal studies, and histories of technology and law in illustrating legal responses to changing technological and social circumstances. The book opens by exploring the early 20th-century beginnings of the relationship between criminal law and automobility, before moving to the direct impact of the automobile on prosecutorial and criminal justice practices in the latter half of the 20th century. Finally, Headworth looks to recent debates and issues in modern-day criminal justice to consider what this might presage for the future. Using a seemingly mundane aspect of daily life as its investigative lens, this book provides a perspective on the transformations of the U.S. criminal justice system"-- Provided by the publisher.
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