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Partners in Crime: Federal Crime Control Policy and the States, 1894 – 1938
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Benge, Guy Jack, Jr.
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Year and Degree
2006, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, History.
Abstract
The dramatic expansion of federal criminal law jurisdiction and policing responsibilities in recent times has raised questions regarding the historical origins of these developments and their impact upon the continuing efficacy of the nation’s federal system of government. This dissertation examines, within the context of federal criminal law enforcement and the evolving nature of crime, those social, economic, and legal forces and events that played a critical role in the growth of the states’ police powers and made federal collaboration an increasingly important factor in the suppression of crime. Since the founding of this nation, federal anti-crime legislation, which tended to be reactionary in its formulation, inconsistent in its development, and supplemental by design, implicitly embodied a policy that forbade the impairment of the powers of the states. This orientation remained a fundamental aspect of federal criminal jurisdiction until well after the New Deal, the central point of this thesis, and did not begin to change until the latter half of the century when the nation’s doctrinal ties to federalism and its faith in the importance of local police powers in the constitutional balance that defined the nation’s political structure were substantially weakened. The practices by which federal crime suppression policies were implemented, a factor that underscored the broad range of policing contexts with which the federal government came into contact, were used in this study as the primary means of documenting the tensions that arose between the nation’s federalist principles and those national experiences that encouraged a more bureaucratic and coordinated response to crime and the threat of disorder. This literature, supplemented by secondary source material, seriously questions whether federal criminal law could ever meet the foundational requirements or offer the breadth of vision that characterize those local and state systems through which justice historically has been dispensed.
Committee
Judith Sealander (Advisor)
Pages
563 p.
Keywords
federal crime control
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federalism
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10th Amendment
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policing
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New Deal
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Herbert Hoover
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Department of Justice
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Homer S. Cummings
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Prohibition
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Narcotics Enforcement
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Crime
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Crime Control
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Mann Act
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Benge, Jr., G. J. (2006).
Partners in Crime: Federal Crime Control Policy and the States, 1894 – 1938
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1162821110
APA Style (7th edition)
Benge, Jr., Guy.
Partners in Crime: Federal Crime Control Policy and the States, 1894 – 1938.
2006. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1162821110.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Benge, Jr., Guy. "Partners in Crime: Federal Crime Control Policy and the States, 1894 – 1938." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1162821110
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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