Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939 - Publication
date:August 2011 - Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm - Weight: 0.24kg -
In stock 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.