Prison and Plantation - Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina,

This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts--an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state--chose the penitentiary in its attempt to minimize the role of informal and extralegal authority while South Carolina--a rural southern slave state--systematically reduced its formal legal institutions, frequently relying on vigilantism.

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Summary

Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878

Product details

• Authors: Michael S Hindus, Michael S. Hindus, Michael Stephen Hindus
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9780807836088
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-3608-8
• No. of pages: 285
• Series: Enduring Editions; Studies in Legal History; Enduring Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous