Crime and punishment in American history /
Friedman, Lawrence Meir, -1930
Crime and punishment in American history / Lawrence Friedman. - New York : BasicBooks, c1993. - xi, 577 p. 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-553) and index.
Tight little islands: criminal justice in the Colonial Period -- From the Revolution to the close of the Nineteenth Century -- Criminal justice in the Twentieth Century.
A major achievement . . . an impressive, panoramic history of the American criminal justice system, from the Salem witchcraft trials to the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers in the first Rodney King beating case.--New York Times Book Review. www.alibris.com
465014879
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States
KF 9223
Crime and punishment in American history / Lawrence Friedman. - New York : BasicBooks, c1993. - xi, 577 p. 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-553) and index.
Tight little islands: criminal justice in the Colonial Period -- From the Revolution to the close of the Nineteenth Century -- Criminal justice in the Twentieth Century.
A major achievement . . . an impressive, panoramic history of the American criminal justice system, from the Salem witchcraft trials to the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers in the first Rodney King beating case.--New York Times Book Review. www.alibris.com
465014879
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States
KF 9223
