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Beskrivning
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.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
* Introduction Tight Little Islands: Criminal Justice In The Colonial Period * The Shape and Nature of the Law * The Law of God and Man From The Revolution To The Close Of The Nineteenth Century * The Mechanics of Power: The Republican Period * Power and Its Victims * Setting the Price: Criminal Justice and the Economy * Morals, Morality, and Criminal Justice * The Mechanics of Power II: Professionalization and Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century * Lawful Law and Lawless Law: Forms of American Violence * Legal Culture: Crimes of Mobility * Women and Criminal Justice to the End of the Nineteenth Century * The Evolution of Criminal Process: Trials and Errors Criminal Justice In The Twentieth Century * A National System * Crime on the Streets; Crime in the Suites * Realignment and Reform * Law, Morals, and Victimless Crime * The Mechanics of Power: Some Twentieth-Century Aspects * The Contemporary Criminal Trial * Gender and Justice * Crimes of the Self: Twentieth-Century Legal Culture * A Nation Besieged
