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Crime and punishment in American history

Lawrence Meir Friedman
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I TIGHT LITTLE ISLANDS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD
    • 1. The Shape and Nature of the Law (page 19)
    • 2. The Law of God and Man (page 31)
  • PART II FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
    • 3. The Mechanics of Power: The Republican Period (page 61)
    • 4. Power and Its Victims (page 83)
    • 5. Setting the Price: Criminal Justice and the Economy (page 107)
    • 6. Morals, Mortality, and Criminal Justice (page 125)
    • 7. The Mechanics of Power II: Professionalization and Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century (page 149)
    • 8. Lawful Law and Lawless Law: Forms of American Violence (page 172)
    • 9. Legal Culture: Crimes of Mobility (page 193)
    • 10. Women and Criminal Justice to the End of Nineteenth Century (page 211)
    • 11. The Evolution of Criminal Process: Trials and Errors (page 235)
  • PART III CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    • 12. A National System (page 261)
    • 13. Crime on the Streets, Crime in the Suites (page 277)
    • 14. Realignment and Reform (page 294)
    • 15. Law, Morals, and Victimless Crime (page 324)
    • 16. The Mechanics of Power: Some Twentieth-Century Aspects (page 358)
    • 17. The Contemporary Criminal Trial (page 383)
    • 18. Gender and Justice (page 419)
    • 19. Crimes of the Self: Twentieth-Century Legal Culture (page 435)
    • 20. A Nation Besieged (page 449)
  • Bibliographical Essay (page 467)
  • Notes (page 477)
  • Index (page 555)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 81.2 (Sep. 1994): 622-623 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2081178
LHR 14.1 (Spring 1996): 209-212 http://www.jstor.org/stable/827648
NEQ 67.3 (Sep. 1994): 512-514 http://www.jstor.org/stable/366154
JSocH 28.3 (Spring 1995): 690-692 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3788486
JIH 26.1 (Summer 1995): 149-151 http://www.jstor.org/stable/205597
RAH 23.1 (Mar. 1995): 153-158 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2703251
Citable Link
Published: c1993
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN(s)
  • 9780465024469 (ebook)
  • 9780465014873 (paper)
  • 9780465014613 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Legal
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