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.

• * 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