{"product_id":"vagrant-nation-police-power-constitutional-change-and-the-making-of-the-1960s-9780199768448","title":"Vagrant Nation: Police Power  Constitutional Change  and the Making of the 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1950s America  it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-played a key role not only in maintaining safety and order but also in enforcing conventional standards of morality and propriety. A person could be arrested for sporting a beard  making a speech  or working too little. Yet by the end of the 1960s  vagrancy laws were discredited and American society was fundamentally transformed. What happened? In Vagrant Nation  Risa Goluboff provides a groundbreaking account of this transformation. By reading into the history of the 1960s through the lens of vagrancy laws  Goluboff shows how constitutional challenges to long-standing police practices were at the center of the multiple movements that made \"the 1960s.\" Vagrancy laws were so broad and flexible that they made it possible for the police to arrest anyone out of place in any way: Beats and hippies; Communists and Vietnam War protestors; racial minorities  civil rights activists  and interracial couples; prostitutes  single women  and gay men  lesbians  and other sexual minorities. As hundreds of these \"vagrants\" and their lawyers claimed that vagrancy laws were unconstitutional  the laws became a flashpoint for debates about radically different visions of order and freedom. In Goluboffs compelling portrayal  the legal campaign against vagrancy laws becomes a sweeping legal and social history of the 1960s. Touching on movements advocating civil rights  peace  gay rights  welfare rights  and cultural revolution  Vagrant Nation provides insight relevant to this battle  as well as the battle over the legacy of the 1960s transformations themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666176401461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0199768447","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199768448.jpg?v=1782421924","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vagrant-nation-police-power-constitutional-change-and-the-making-of-the-1960s-9780199768448","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}