The publication of a critical report is not evidence that its recommendations changed routine practice.
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.
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Chapter 7, Building the Penal State
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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.
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Chapter 7, Building the Penal State; physical PDF pp. 204–211, supplied 334-page copy.
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The publication of a critical report is not evidence that its recommendations changed routine practice.