| Description |
vii, 184 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
New histories of American law |
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New histories of American law.
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| Summary |
"This book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes in criminal law during that period, tracing shifts in policing, law, the courts, and punishment. She also analyzes the role that popular justice - lynch mobs, vigilance committees, law-and-order societies, and community shunning - played in the development of America's criminal justice system. This book explores the relation between changes in America's criminal justice system and its constitutional order"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 139-178) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : a government of men, not laws -- Criminal justice and the nation, 1789-1860 -- Crime and justice in the states, 1789-1839 -- Law versus justice in the states, 1840-1865 -- States and nation, 1860-1900 -- Criminal justice, 1900-1936 -- Rights and the turn to law, 1937-1939. |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1789-1939.
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Geschichte 1789-1939.
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| ISBN |
9781107401365 paperback |
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1107401364 paperback |
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9781107008847 hardback |
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1107008840 hardback |
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