Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939

Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939
ISBN-10
1139503154
ISBN-13
9781139503150
Category
History
Language
English
Published
2011-08-15
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Elizabeth Dale

Description

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.

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