| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s. By Michael W. Flamm. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xvi, 294 pp. $34.50, ISBN 0-231-11512-1.)
According to Michael W. Flamm, the "law and order" issue of the 1960s was never as simple as either its proponents or its detractors tried to make it. Republicans claimed that Democrats encouraged lawlessness and mollycoddled criminals; liberals answered that conservatives were racists who undermined civil liberties. Acknowledging racism's role in the formation of the issue, Flamm argues that the origins and uses of the law and order mantra were much more subtle. It was, he explains, both a reaction to a real rise in fear and a conscious manipulation of the American public by conservative Republicans searching for an issue.	1
Flamm is at his best when tracing the evolution of the term. He begins by emphasizing the impact of the combination of shifting demographic patterns with increasingly vocal and visible civil rights and protest movements and the economic downturn of the manufacturing sector. These changes sensitized many white and black Americans to the instability of their society. Moreover, according to Flamm, Americans increasingly feared the violence of their world. Despite all liberal and scholarly claims to the contrary, Americans believed that the crime rate was going up. The bottom line was: they were afraid.	. . .

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