Title: Police, prison, and punishment : major historical interpretations /
Authors: Hall, Kermit.; Hall, Kermit L., 1944-2006.
Publisher: Garland Pub.,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of United States History; Police United States History; Prisons Law and legislation United States History.; Punishment United States History
Contents: The decline of the rehabilitative ideal in American criminal justice / Francis A. Allen -- The historical origin of the prison system in America / Harry Elmer Barnes -- The sheriff in colonial North Carolina / Julian P. Boyd -- The Waukesha county jail -- building, administration, inmates: 1901-1904 / Elizabeth G. Brown -- France looks to Pennsylvania: the Eastern penitentiary as a symbol of reform / John H. Cary -- The Tennessee convict war / Pete Daniel -- The movement to abolish capital punishment in America, 1787-1861 / David B. Davis -- The origins of preventive confinement in Anglo-American law, part II: the American experience / Alan Dershowitz -- August Vollmer, Berkeley's first chief of police, and the emergence of police professionalism / Nathan Douthit -- Sentiment and statistics in the Progressive Era: the debate on capital punishment in New York / Richard B. Dressner and Glenn C. Altschuler --^