[FREE] In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
❀ Victoria F. Nourse ❀
| #190897 in Books | Nourse, Victoria F. | 2008-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.60 x1.00 x6.50l,1.17 | File Name: 0393065294 | 240 pages
||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| A Fine Supreme Court Case History|By Ronald H. Clark|This book is a history of the Supreme Court case of Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942), in which the Court threw out the state's law authorizing mandatory sterilization of "habitual criminals." The author does a solid job outlining the history of the Oklahoma statute, the legal proceedings before the case reached the Court, and t|From Booklist|*Starred * Nourse blows the dust off one of the most momentous forgotten decisions in Supreme Court history, whose import for society is easily appreciated but whose rationale must be not just dust
The disturbing, forgotten history of America’s experiment with eugenics.
In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization of “habitual criminals” and the “feebleminded.” But in 1936, inmates at Oklahoma’s McAlester prison refused to c... [PDF.lm23] In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics Rating: 4.90 (714 Votes)
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