HISTORY 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Slavery, White Slave Traffic, Slave Narrative
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Module 3a, 3b, 3c: haller (associate prof. of history at temple university) urban. Crime and criminal justice: the chicago case (examination of the complex interrelations of crime, criminal justice, and reform in. Chicago 1900 1930 and the questions and problems that it raises) Criminal justice involved working relationship between: officials, police, prosecutors, judges, bailiffs, probation officers, mediators between the legal system and criminals, bail bondsmen, criminal lawyers, fixers, politicians, criminals, behavior influenced by contact enforcement officials. Most positions within the system were rewards for party service - each party slated judges so that various ethnic groups in the city would be represented. Reformers related white slavery to immigration as though it. Congress strengthened moral borders by passing the page act- were a foreign problem. State university) preventing immoral women to enter the u. s: viewed poverty as moral failing and believed it bred potential sexual immorality in women because they assumed poor women would turn to prostitution in order to survive.
