Criminal justice in the United States, 1789-1939 / Elizabeth Dale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dale, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

New histories of American law.

New histories of American law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--History.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Criminal justice and the nation, 1789-1860; 2. Law and justice in the states, 1789-1839; 3. Law vs. justice in the states, 1840-1865; 4. States and nation, 1860-1900; 5. Criminal justice, 1900-1935; 6. Rights and the turn to law, 1937-1939.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22806-9

1-139-12504-4

1-283-29864-3

1-139-12361-0

9786613298645

0-511-92015-6

1-139-11786-6

1-139-11350-X

1-139-12852-3

1-139-11569-3

OCLC:

769341781