Criminal justice in the United States, 1789-1939
By: Elizabeth Dale
Series: New histories of American law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781107401365; 9781107008847
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Machine generated contents note: 1. Criminal justice and the nation, 1789-1860; 2. Law and justice in the states, 1789-1839; 3. Law vs. justice in the states, 1840-1865; 4. States and nation, 1860-1900; 5. Criminal justice, 1900-1935; 6. Rights and the turn to law, 1937-1939.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: a government of men, not laws --; title: Criminal justice and the nation, 1789-1860 --; title: Crime and justice in the states, 1789-1839 --; title: Law versus justice in the states, 1840-1865 --; title: States and nation, 1860-1900 --; title: Criminal justice, 1900-1936 --; title: Rights and the turn to law, 1937-1939.