Richard F. Hamm

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Canonical contributor authority record for Richard F. Hamm. Identity and 2020 publication-time biography were verified from rendered PDF sheets 210–213.

Authority summary

Professor of history at the University at Albany, SUNY as credited in 2020; legal historian of temperance, the Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition enforcement, civil liberties, and constitutional change.

Contribution to Prohibition's Greatest Myths

Coeditor of the volume and author of Chapter 6 on preexisting organized crime, enlarged illicit markets, federal policing and prosecution, plea bargaining, prisons, and constitutional law.

Project use and boundary

Primary chapter authority for federal criminal-justice state-building in this source. Verify individual cases, agency growth, caseloads, and prison effects with primary legal and institutional records.

Verification

~~Person identity and name form verified.~~

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