TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman, Lawrence Meir,
TI  - Crime and punishment in American history
SN  - 465014879
AV  - KF 9223 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - BasicBooks
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - United States
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -