Criminal justice in the United States, 1789-1939 [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Dale.
Dale, Elizabeth.
2011
HV9950 .D35 2011eb
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Title Criminal justice in the United States, 1789-1939 [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Dale.
Author Dale, Elizabeth.
ISBN 9781139115698 (electronic bk.)
9781107401365 (pbk.)
9781107008847
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 184 p.)
Call Number HV9950 .D35 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.97309/034
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, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series New histories of American law.
Available in Other Form Criminal justice in the United States, 1789-1939.
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