The Assassination of William McKinley
Anarchism, Insanity, and the Birth of the Social Sciences
Seiten
2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6550-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6550-9 (ISBN)
This book examines the assassination of President McKinley, which took place as the social sciences turned their attention to social problems such as violence, immigration, and mental health. It explores the understanding of political violence and the meaning of criminal responsibility during this time.
This book is an examination of the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, an American-born purported anarchist. This work offers a new and different way to approach historical crime stories. Rather than accepting the idea that Czolgosz was inherently dangerous because of his ethnic background or his obscure political statements, Federman argues, rather, that political relations, historical events, and the developing discourses in the natural and social sciences toward normal and pathological behaviors structured the meaning of the assassination. Federman proposes there are six ways to view an assassin, each corresponding to a social science. Consequently, each chapter of this manuscript examines a social science and its relation to the assassination. Overall, there are three purposes to this work: One is to examine the rise of the social sciences at the time of the assassination. The second is to explore the historical and political understanding of political violence; and the third is to examine the meaning of legal responsibility.
This book is an examination of the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, an American-born purported anarchist. This work offers a new and different way to approach historical crime stories. Rather than accepting the idea that Czolgosz was inherently dangerous because of his ethnic background or his obscure political statements, Federman argues, rather, that political relations, historical events, and the developing discourses in the natural and social sciences toward normal and pathological behaviors structured the meaning of the assassination. Federman proposes there are six ways to view an assassin, each corresponding to a social science. Consequently, each chapter of this manuscript examines a social science and its relation to the assassination. Overall, there are three purposes to this work: One is to examine the rise of the social sciences at the time of the assassination. The second is to explore the historical and political understanding of political violence; and the third is to examine the meaning of legal responsibility.
Cary Federman is associate professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Montclair State University.
Chapter 1: Looking Backward: The History of an Unknown Assassin
Chapter 2: Sociology: The Problem of Social Forces
Chapter 3: Criminology: From Individual to Social Responsibility
Chapter 4: Criminal Anthropology: The Criminal as Morphological Sphinx
Chapter 5: Psychology: Regarding the Boundaries of Insanity
Chapter 6: Anti-Political Science: Violence and Anarchism from Haymarket to the Assassination of William McKinley
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.03.2018 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-6550-6 / 1498565506 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-6550-9 / 9781498565509 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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