Crime and Punishment in American History

by Friedman, Lawrence Meir

• ISBN13: 9780465014613
• ISBN10: 0465014615
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Tight Little Islands: Criminal Justice in the Colonial period	p. 17
The Shape and Nature of the Law	p. 19
The Law of God and Man	p. 31
From the Revolution to the Close of the Nineteenth Century	p. 59
The Mechanics of power: The Republican period	p. 61
power and Its Victims	p. 83
Setting the price: Criminal Justice and the Economy	p. 107
Morals, Morality, and Criminal Justice	p. 125
The Mechanics of power II: professionalization and Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 149
Lawful Law and Lawless Law: Forms of American Violence	p. 172
Legal Culture: Crimes of Mobility	p. 193
Women and Criminal Justice to the End of the Nineteenth Century	p. 211
The Evolution of Criminal process: Trials and Errors	p. 235
Criminal Justice in the Twentieth Century	p. 259
A National System	p. 261
Crime on the Streets; Crime in the Suites	p. 277
Realignment and Reform	p. 294
Law, Morals, and Victimless Crime	p. 324
The Mechanics of power: Some Twentieth-Century Aspects	p. 358
The Contemporary Criminal Trial	p. 383
Gender and Justice	p. 419
Crimes of the Self: Twentieth-Century Legal Culture	p. 435
A Nation Besieged	p. 449
Bibliographical Essay	p. 467
Notes	p. 477
Index	p. 555
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