McGirr — Expanded administrative capacity can support both coercion and criticism — PDF 204–211

McGirr connects enforcement expansion to crime statistics and penal administration, then shows how the Wickersham Commission criticized policing abuses, challenged immigrant-criminality stereotypes, and identified economic insecurity. Many proposals received limited attention or implementation.

Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (W. W. Norton, supplied edition copyright 2016), Chapter 7, Building the Penal State, physical PDF pp. 204–211 of the 334-page uploaded copy.

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