Following is the Table of Contents for the Journal of Urban History V. 29, n. 5 (July 2003)

Special Issue: New Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in the American City

Guest Editor: TIMOTHY J. GILFOYLE

CONTENTS:
Introduction

New Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in the American City
TIMOTHY J. GILFOYLE

"America's Greatest Criminal Barracks":The Tombs and the Experience of Criminal Justice in New York City, 1838-1897
TIMOTHY J. GILFOYLE

"Close That Place of Hell": Poor Women and the Cultural Politics of Prohibition
MICHAEL WILLRICH

The Racketeer's Progress: Commerce, Crime, and the Law in Chicago, 1900-1940
ANDREW W. COHEN

The Penitentiary's "Square Deal": Prisoners and their Keepers in 1920s New York
REBECCA McLENNAN

REVIEW ESSAY:

Scorsese's Gangs of New York: Why Myth Matters
TIMOTHY J. GILFOYLE

REVIEWS:

Gangs of New York, dir. Martin Scorsese, prod. Harvey Weinstein (Miramax Films, 2002), rated R, 2 hours, 44 minutes.

MARTIN SCORSESE, et al., Gangs of New York: Making the Movie. New York: Miramax Books, 2002.

HERBERT ASBURY, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1928; reprint New York: Old Town Books, 1989; reprint New York: Paragon House, 1990; reprint New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001.