Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source U.S. history documents underpin History Compass' popular Perspectives on History series. This volume introduces criminal justice in the American colonies to the days of westward expansion with discussion of the various punishments and philosophies and opinions on criminal behavior, from the Puritans to Thomas Jefferson, Dorothea Dix, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others.
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Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source U.S. history documents underpin History Compass' popular Perspectives on History series. This volume introduces criminal justice in the American colonies to the days of westward expansion with discussion of the various punishments and philosophies and opinions on criminal behavior, from the Puritans to Thomas Jefferson, Dorothea Dix, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others.
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