Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939
Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939
Elizabeth Dale, University of Florida
December 2011
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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.
- Relates criminal justice to popular justice
- Explores the relation between criminal law and constitutional order
- Uses the history of criminal law to explore the nature and extent of the state in US history
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Table of Contents
- 1. Criminal justice and the nation, 1789–1860
- 2. Law and justice in the states, 1789–1839
- 3. Law vs justice in the states, 1840–65
- 4. States and nation, 1860–1900
- 5. Criminal justice, 1900–35
- 6. Rights and the turn to law, 1937–9.
