Crime and the Rise of Modern America

<p>In <em>Crime and the Rise of Modern America</em> Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes criminals and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation media and incarceration affected the criminal underworld.</p><p>In ten thematic chapters Crime and the Rise of Modern America turns to the outlaws of the iconic West and the illegal distilleries of Prohibition the turn-of-the-century immigrants and the conmen who preyed on the people of the Promised Land to examine how crime and America both changed defining each other.</p>