Crime and Punishment in American History

by Friedman, Lawrence M.

• ISBN13: 9780465014873
• ISBN10: 0465014879
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-09
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.

Author Biography

Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University. he is also the author nof many books, including A History of American Law, Total Justice, The Republic of Choice, and The Roots of Justice.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(18)
PART I TIGHT LITTLE ISLANDS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD	19	(42)
1. The Shape and Nature of the Law	19	(12)
2. The Law of God and Man	31	(30)
PART II FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY	61	(200)
3. The Mechanics of Power: The Republican Period	61	(22)
4. Power and Its Victims	83	(24)
5. Setting the Price: Criminal Justice and the Economy	107	(18)
6. Morals, Morality, and Criminal Justice	125	(24)
7. The Mechanics of Power II: Professionalization and Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century	149	(23)
8. Lawful Law and Lawless Law: Forms of American Violence	172	(21)
9. Legal Culture: Crimes of Mobility	193	(18)
10. Women and Criminal Justice to the End of the Nineteenth Century	211	(24)
11. The Evolution of Criminal Process: Trials and Errors	235	(26)
PART III CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY	261	(206)
12. A National System	261	(16)
13. Crime on the Streets; Crime in the Suites	277	(17)
14. Realignment and Reform	294	(30)
15. Law, Morals, and Victimless Crime	324	(34)
16. The Mechanics of Power: Some Twentieth-Century Aspects	358	(25)
17. The Contemporary Criminal Trial	383	(36)
18. Gender and Justice	419	(16)
19. Crimes of the Self: Twentieth-Century Legal Culture	435	(14)
20. A Nation Besieged	449	(18)
Bibliographical Essay	467	(10)
Notes	477	(78)
Index	555