Detroit and the Problem of Order, 1830-80: A Geography of Crime, Riot, and Policing

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CONTENTS
List of Tables
List of Maps
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
ONE Trouble in the Neighborhoods
EARLY GROWTH AND PUBLIC ORDER
MAP I-1 : Detroit, 1835 (Burton Historical Collection.)
A CHANGING CITY AND THE PROBLEM OF VICE
TABLE 1-1 : POPULATION BY WARD AND NATIONAL ORIGIN, 1853
TABLE 1-2 : DISTRIBUTION BY WARD OF SMALL WORKSHOPS AND RETAIL LIQUOR ESTABLISHMENTS, 1857
VIOLENCE AND SPATIAL HEGEMONY
TWO The New Downtown
THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
THE BACHELOR-TRANSIENT SUBCULTURE
TABLE Il-I : BOARDING-HOUSE POPULATION, FIRST AND THIRD WARDS, 1850, 1860, 1870
TABLE Il-2 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF UNATTACHED MALES IN BOARDING HOUSES BY OCCUPATION AND AGE, FIRST AND THIRD WARDS, 1850, 1860, 1870
MAP II-2 : Boarding Houses, Saloons, Billiard Halls, and Vice Areas, 1862.
FASHIONABLE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS
MAP II-3 : Residences and Businesses of Board of Trade Members, 1864.
THREE The Crisis Downtown
CRIME AND ITS VICTIMS
TABLE Ill-I : COUNTY JAIL COMMITMENTS AND POLICE COURT ARRAIGNMENTS FOR CRIMES OF THEFT AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE, 1847-64
MAP III-1 : Crime Patterns, 1854, 1864
THE PROBLEM OF DISORDER
THE CREATION OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE
FOUR The Professional Police and the City
SPATIAL PATTERNS IN THE EARLY STREETCAR ERA
MAP IV-1 : Detroit, 1863. (Burton Historical Collection.)
MAP IV-2 : Detroit, 1886. (Burton Historical Collection.)
MAP IV-3 : Boarding Houses, Saloons, Billard Halls, and Vice Areas, 1875
THE NEW POLICE AND THE SPATIAL ORDER
TABLE IV-1: PERCENTAGE DISTRI BUTION OF POLICE APPOINTEES BY OCCUPATION AND PLACE OF BIRTH, 1865-71
MAP IV-4 : Preprofessional and Professional Police Residences, 1861-71.
MAP IV-5 : Suspicious Places Reported by the Police, 1866.
PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTS AND THE TRAMP PROBLEM
TABLE IV-2 : PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTS, 1865-80
TABLE IV-3 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ORDER AND NON-PUBLC ORDER ARRESTEES BY OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE, 1869-71, 1879-81
TABLE IV-4 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ORDER AND NON-PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTEES BY PLACE OF BIRTH, 1869-71, 1879-81
TABLE IV-5 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTEES AND OFFENDERS FOR CRIMES OF THEFT AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE BY OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE, 1869-71, 1879-81
TABLE IV-6 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTEES AND OFFENDERS FOR CRIMES OF THEFT AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE BY PLACE OF BIRTH, 1869-71, 1879-81
THE LEGITIMATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL POLICE
TABLE IV-7 : SELECTED ARREST PATTERNS OF POLICEMEN BY OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND AND PLACE OF BIRTH, 1869-71
FIVE The Return to Order
MOB VIOLENCE IN THE STREETCAR CITY
PATTERNS OF CRIME IN THE STREETCAR CITY
TABLE V-1 : POLICE COURT ARRAIGNMENTS AND POLICE ARRESTS FOR CRIMES OF THEFT AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE AND FOR PUBLIC ORDER OFFENSES, 1854-85
MAP V-1 : Patterns of Crime and Criminal Residence, 1878-81.
TABLE V-2 : POPULATION BY WARD, 1880
DETROIT AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
NOTES
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
INTRODUCTION
ONE : TROUBLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS
TWO : THE NEW DOWNTOWN
THREE : THE CRISIS DOWNTOWN
FOUR : THE PROFESSIONAL. POLICE AND THE CITY
FIVE : THE RETURN TO ORDER
A NOTE ON THE DETROIT SOURCES
INDEX