Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Dale currently teaches history and law at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on expressions of popular sovereignty, specifically popular efforts to determine and enforce notions of right and wrong, in constitutional orders. She has written several books including the forthcoming Chicago's Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century. Her articles have been published in the Law and History Review, the American Historical Review and the Northern Illinois Law Review. Klappentext Traces the development of criminal law in America! from the start of the constitutional era to the rise of the New Deal order. Zusammenfassung This book chronicles the development of criminal law in America! from the beginning of the constitutional era to the rise of the New Deal order. Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes in criminal law during that period and analyzes the role that popular justice played in the development of America's criminal justice system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Dale, Elizabeth (University of Florida) Dale, Dale Elizabeth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107401365
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40136-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: New Histories of American Law; New Histories of American Law
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; HISTORY / United States / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Criminal justice law