Crime and Punishment in American History,9780465014873

Crime and Punishment in American History

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ISBN13: 9780465014873
ISBN10: 0465014879
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-09-09
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary

In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.

Author Biography

Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University. he is also the author nof many books, including A History of American Law, Total Justice, The Republic of Choice, and The Roots of Justice.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1(18)
PART I TIGHT LITTLE ISLANDS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD 19(42)
1. The Shape and Nature of the Law
19(12)
2. The Law of God and Man
31(30)
PART II FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 61(200)
3. The Mechanics of Power: The Republican Period
61(22)
4. Power and Its Victims
83(24)
5. Setting the Price: Criminal Justice and the Economy
107(18)
6. Morals, Morality, and Criminal Justice
125(24)
7. The Mechanics of Power II: Professionalization and Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century
149(23)
8. Lawful Law and Lawless Law: Forms of American Violence
172(21)
9. Legal Culture: Crimes of Mobility
193(18)
10. Women and Criminal Justice to the End of the Nineteenth Century
211(24)
11. The Evolution of Criminal Process: Trials and Errors
235(26)
PART III CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 261(206)
12. A National System
261(16)
13. Crime on the Streets; Crime in the Suites
277(17)
14. Realignment and Reform
294(30)
15. Law, Morals, and Victimless Crime
324(34)
16. The Mechanics of Power: Some Twentieth-Century Aspects
358(25)
17. The Contemporary Criminal Trial
383(36)
18. Gender and Justice
419(16)
19. Crimes of the Self: Twentieth-Century Legal Culture
435(14)
20. A Nation Besieged
449(18)
Bibliographical Essay 467(10)
Notes 477(78)
Index 555

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