Readings

Required Books:

• Samuel Walker, Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
• Karen Halttunen, Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)
• George Lippard, Quaker City or, The Monks of Monks Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime (1845; Amherst: U. Mass. Press, 1995).
• Charles E. Rosenberg, The Trial of Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Guilded Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
• Michael Willrich, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• Daniel J. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985).

Articles and Selections:

• Alan Feuer, “ A Baby’s Death, Grim as the Life of His Mother,” New York Times, November 12, 2005
• Nicholas Wade, “ Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior,” New York Times, November 20, 2007
• Nicholas Wade, “ Exploring a Hormone for Caring,” New York Times, November 22, 2005
• Amy Harmon, “ In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice,” New York Times, November 11, 2007
• Benedict Carey, “ Brain Injury Said to Affect Moral Decisions,” New York Times, November 22, 2007
• Jeffrey Rosen, “ The Brain on the Stand,” New York Times (Sunday Magazine), November 11, 2007
• David Brooks, “Marshmallows and Public Policy,” [editorial] , New York Times, May 7, 2006
• David L. Kirp. “ After the Bell Curve,” New York Times (Sunday Magazine), July 23, 2006
• Peter D’Agostino. “Craniums, Criminals, and the ‘Cursed Race’: Italian Criminology in American Racial Thought, 1861-1924,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 44 (2002): 319-34
• Nicole Hahn Rafter, “Criminal Anthropology: Its Reception in the United States and the Nature of its Appeal,” in Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective, edited by Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell (German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press: Washington D.C. and Cambridge Eng., 2006): 159-181
• Richard Dugdale, “Hereditary Pauperism as Illustrated by the ‘Juke’ Family,” excerpted from White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies I, 1877-1919, edited by Nicole Hahn Rafter (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988) : 33-47
• Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
• Paul A. Lombardo. “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: New Light on Buck v. Bell,” New York University Law Review 60 (April 1985): 30-62
• Paula S. Fass, “Making and Remaking an Event: The Leopold and Loeb Case in American Culture,” Journal of American History 80 (Dec. 1993): 919-951