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Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939

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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 ...

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Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939 2011, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107401365

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Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939 2011, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107008847

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