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050 _aKF 9223
100 _aFriedman, Lawrence Meir,
_d-1930
_9109155
245 0 _aCrime and punishment in American history /
_cLawrence Friedman.
260 _aNew York :
_bBasicBooks,
_cc1993.
300 _axi, 577 p.
_c20 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [477]-553) and index.
505 _aTight little islands: criminal justice in the Colonial Period -- From the Revolution to the close of the Nineteenth Century -- Criminal justice in the Twentieth Century.
520 _aA 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
650 _aCriminal justice, Administration of
_zUnited States
_929203
942 _cALR
999 _c75987
_d75987