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37 Gallup, Gallup Poll: 1990, p. 123. Only 6 percent thought “breakdown of family, social values” was the main factor; and “courts too lenient” was selected by only 2 percent.
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Aarons, Lizzie
Abortion
Abrams v. United States
Accomack County (Virginia)
Adams, John
Addams, Jane
Adkinson, Stephen
Adultery; during the colonial period; decriminalization of; and the media; and morality; during the twentieth century. See also Fornication laws
Africa
African-Americans. See Black(s)
Aiken, Doris
Alabama; constitution; and issues related to morality; and “lawless law,” police in; and political justice; and slavery
Alameda County (California); and criminal trial issues; and morality and victimless crime
Alaska
Albany (New York)
Alcatraz Island
Alder Gulch
Alderson
Allen, William
Allotment acts
Alschuler, Albert W.
Alton
Alvey, Pope
American Bar Association
American Civil Liberties Union
American Communist Party
American Federation of Labor
American Law Institute
American Medical Association
American Revolution; abolition of slavery after; convictions in capital cases before; nature of and political crime
American Sugar Refining Company
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser)
Anabaptists
Anarchists
Anarchy; and lawless law
Andrews, Susanna
Anslinger, Harry
Antitrust law
Apartheid
Appalachian Mountains
Appeals
Appelate courts
Aquino, Iva d’
Aristocracy; and dueling and economic law
Arizona; and the death penalty; Miranda v. Arizona and prisoners’ rights
Arkansas; and prisoners’ rights; and slavery
Army (United States)
Arnold, Thurman
Assimilation. See also Immigration
Atkinson, William Y.
Atlanta (Georgia)
Auburn prison
Augustus, John
Aurora
Australia
Authority: and the “coordinate” system of criminal justice; and crimes of the self
Automobile: and the modem police; theft
Averill, Jim
Ayers, Edward
Baby farming
Bail
Bailey, Ida
Bailey, William J. A.
Baker, Abner, Jr.
Baldus, David C.
Baldwin, Lola
Baldwin, Reverend
Ballard v. United States
Baltimore
Bancroft, Hubert
Banking
Banks, Albert
Barbados
Barbarism
Barfield, Velma
Bamard, Kate
Bames, Hannah
Bamum, P. T.
Barrett, William L.
Barron v. Mayor of Baltimore
Barrows, Isabel
Barton, Julia
Bates, Ruby
Batt, William
Battered-wife syndrome
“Baumes law,”
Bazelon, David
Beaumont, Gustave de
Beccaria, Cesare
Bedford County
Bedford Hills
Beecher, Lyman
Beirut
Bell, Daniel
Bellwood
Benefit of clergy
Bentham, Jeremy
Berry, Chuck
Berry, Joan
Bertillon, Alphonse
Bertillon system
Bibber, Sarah
Bible
Biegenwald, Richard
Bigamy
Bilgen, J. W.
Bill of Rights; and the federal framework; and native peoples; and religious minorities; and the twentieth-century Constitution
Bill of Rights (Massachusetts)
Bill of Rights, “victims’,”
Bird, Jerry Joe
Bird, Rose
Birmingham (Alabama)
Bishop, Joel
Black, Hugo
Black Codes
Blackmail
Black market crime
Black(s) and adultery laws; and apartheid; arrest rates for and communists; and crime rates; and crimes of mobility; and criminal justice as state power, and the death penalty; and eugenics on juries; and lawless law in penitentiaries; in police forces; and prisoners’ rights; and the sentencing process; and trial by jury, right to violent death rates for; voting rights of; women, victimization of. See also Race-hate crimes; Racial segregation; Racism; Rodney King nots; Slavery
Blackstone, William
Blake, Henry
Blameworthiness
Blasphemy
Blood feuds
Bodenhamer, David
Bodie (California)
Bodie of Liberties
Boesky, Ivan
Boies, Henry
Bolshevism
Bonaparte, Charles J.
Bonds
Borden, Abby
Borden, Andrew J.
Borden, Lizzie
Boston (Massachusetts); during the colonial period; and issues related to morality; larceny cases in; and “lawless law,” Massacre; police in; and victimless crime; and women and criminal justice. See also Massachusetts
Bowers v. Hardwick
Bradford
Brady, James
Bragg, Hardy
Braintree (Massachusetts)
Bram v. United States
Brandeis, Louis D.
Brandenburg v. Ohio
Branding, as a method of punishment
Brando, Marlon