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Crime and Punishment in American History
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Crime and Punishment in American History (1993) (edit title/settings)

by Lawrence Meir Friedman (Author) (edit contributors)

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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.

Lawrence M. Friedman argues that the evolution of criminal justice has reflected... read more

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AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY BEGINS, CONVENTIONALLY, IN THE EARLY SEVENteenth century, when English-speaking settlers first got a toehold on soil that is now part of the United States.

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Preface
Introduction

PART I: TIGHT LITTLE ISLANDS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD
1. The Shape and Nature of the Law
2. The Law of God and Man

PART II: FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
3. The Mechanics of Power: The Republican Period
4. Power and Its Victims
5. Setting the Price: Criminal Justice and the Economy
6. Morals, Morality, and Criminal Justice
7. The Mechanics of Power II: Professionalization and Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century
8. Lawful Law and Lawless Law: Forms of American Violence
9. Legal Culture: Crimes of Mobility
10. Women and Criminal Justice to the End of the Nineteenth Century
11. The Evolution of Criminal Process: Trials and Errors

PART III: CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
12. A National System
13. Crime on the Streets; Crime in the Suites
14. Realignment and Reform
15. Law, Morals, and Victimless Crime
16. The Mechanics of Power: Some Twentieth Century Aspects
17. The Contemporary Criminal Trial
18. Gender and Justice
19. Crimes of the Self: Twentieth Century Legal Culture
20. A Nation Besieged

Bibliographical Essay
Notes
Index

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  1. Lawrence Meir Friedman (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0465014615
Page Count: 592

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  • Library of Congress: KF9223.F75 1993
  • Dewey: 345.7305

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