Crime and Punishment in American History - Lawrence M. Friedman [0]
Title Page
Dedication
PREFACE
Introduction
I - TIGHT LITTLE ISLANDS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD
I - THE SHAPE AND NATURE OF THE LAW
Criminal Justice: The Common-Law Background
Courts and Procedures
The Organization of Justice: A System of Amateurs
Chapter 2 - THE LAW OF GOD AND MAN
Colonial Religion and Criminal Justice
Victimless Crime; Communal Punishment
Colonial Corrections
The Death Penalty
Salem and Its Witches
Imprisonment
Who Were the Criminals?
Slavery and Political Justice
The Eighteenth Century
Evolution of Due Process
II - FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 3 - THE MECHANICS OF POWER: THE REPUBLICAN PERIOD
Reform and Reforming
The Federal Framework
The Penitentiary System
Chapter 4 - POWER AND ITS VICTIMS
Race
Free Blacks
Black Victims
A Kind of Freedom
The Other Americans
Religious Minorities
The Poor
Industrial Labor
Chapter 5 - SETTING THE PRICE: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE ECONOMY
Theft
Framing the Market
Economic Regulation
Quality Control
Curbing Economic Power
Corporate Crime
The Public Health
Labor and Management: The Conditions of Labor
Rules of the Road
Chapter 6 - MORALS, MORALITY, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Victorian Compromise
Control of Sexual Behavior
Gambling
Demon Rum
The Revolution of the Righteous
Enforcement
Degenerate Man
The Insanity Defense
Chapter 7 - THE MECHANICS OF POWER II: PROFESSIONALIZATION AND REFORM IN THE ...
The Decline of the Classic Penitentiary
Penology and Reform
Juvenile Justice
Local Jails
Capital Punishment in the Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter 8 - LAWFUL LAW AND LAWLESS LAW: FORMS OF AMERICAN VIOLENCE
A Violent Society
Violence and the Frontier Tradition
Ritualized Violence: The Duel
The Vigilante Movement
Violent Resistance to Law
Lynching
Chapter 9 - LEGAL CULTURE: CRIMES OF MOBILITY
Swindlers
Too Many Weddings
Mobility and Murder
The Rise of the Detective
Forensic Science
Mobility and Crime
Chapter 10 - WOMEN AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE TO THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
The Woman Victim
Virtue and Seduction
The Unwritten Law
Domestic Violence
Women’s Crimes
Abortion and Infanticide
Women Behind Bars
Chapter 11 - THE EVOLUTION OF CRIMINAL PROCESS: TRIALS AND ERRORS
The Criminal Trial in the Republic
Rough Justice
The Middle Layer
The Decline of Trial by Jury
The Theater of the Law
Criminal Appeals
III - CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Chapter 12 - A NATIONAL SYSTEM
Federal Crimes
The Federal Courts
Law Enforcement and Corrections
The Syndicate
Crime as a National Issue
Chapter 13 - CRIME ON THE STREETS; CRIME IN THE SUITES
Traffic Law
Drunk Driving
Regulatory Crime
Anti-Trust
The Public Health
White-Collar Crime
Chapter 14 - REALIGNMENT AND REFORM
The Twentieth-Century Constitution
Punishment and Corrections
The Age of Backlash
Prisons and Prisoners’ Rights
The Death Penalty
Chapter 15 - LAW, MORALS, AND VICTIMLESS CRIME
Morality Enthroned
The Mann Act
Red-Light Abatement
Fornication and “Statutory Rape”
Degenerate Man
National Prohibition
The Great Counterattack: Lifestyle Wars
Out of the Closet: Deregulating Sex
The Well of Loneliness
Privacy
Obscenity and Pornography
Drug Laws: The Great Exception
Chapter 16 - THE MECHANICS OF POWER: SOME TWENTIETH-CENTURY ASPECTS
The Modern Police
Personnel
Political Crime
Political Justice and “Ordinary” Crime
Political Justice: World War II and Beyond
Political Justice Today
Race and Criminal Justice
A Rainbow of Minorities
Chapter 17 - THE CONTEMPORARY CRIMINAL TRIAL
The Basement of Criminal Justice
The Felony Trial
The Twilight of Trial by Jury
Pleading Guilty
Defending
On Trial
The Big Show: Major Trials and Their Discontents
The Insanity Defense
The Age of Backlash
After the Verdict: Probation
The Sentencing Process
juvenile Justice
Criminal Appeals
Chapter 18 - GENDER AND JUSTICE
Women in the Courtroom
“More Terrible Than Any Man”: Women in Crime
The Oldest Profession
Sexual Justice
Women