Criminal justice in the United States, 1789-1939 [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Dale.

9781139115698 (electronic bk.)
9781107401365 (pbk.)
9781107008847

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (vii, 184 p.)

HV9950 .D35 2011eb

364.97309/034

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New histories of American law.

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