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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      15 August 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511920158
      9781107008847
      9781107401365
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920158
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 190 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.24kg, 194 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, Legal History, Area Studies, Criminology, American Studies, History, Sociology
      Series:
      New Histories of American Law
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    Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, Legal History, Area Studies, Criminology, American Studies, History, Sociology
    Series:
    New Histories of American Law
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    This book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes in criminal law during that period, tracing shifts in policing, law, the courts and punishment. She also analyzes the role that popular justice - lynch mobs, vigilance committees, law-and-order societies and community shunning - played in the development of America's criminal justice system. This book explores the relation between changes in America's criminal justice system and its constitutional order.

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    “This is a highly comprehensive, thoughtful, and insightful overview of the history of American criminal justice over the course of the long nineteenth century. Remarkably sensitive to larger trends and local nuance in the development of American criminal justice, Elizabeth Dale’s masterful book should be read by all interested in the history of American law.” – Michael J. Pfeifer, author of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching

    “This fine book provides both a broad synthesis and a thought-provoking interpretation of criminal justice in the United States from 1789 to 1939. Elizabeth Dale’s analysis contains many moving parts: federal and state governments, courts and legislatures, judges and juries, constitutional rulings and lynch mobs, and more. The book’s emphasis on the ever-changing interplay between formal law and popular notions of justice invites readers to reflect on the enduring tension between the rule of law and democracy.” – John Wertheimer, Davidson College

    "...a concise, engaging, and provocative synthesis...Dale offers afar-ranging and compelling analysis of the halting process of stateformation in nineteenth-century America. Most important, shedemonstrates the ways in which traditions of popular justice survivedwell into the twentieth century, sometimes challenging formal legalinstitutions, sometimes undermining them, sometimes subtly influencingthem, and often disrupting the rule of law in the process."- Jeffrey S. Adler, H-Law

    "By describing the national, provincial, and popular struggle over how to define and control criminal justice in the US, Dale has provided a most valuable contribution to those interested in the relationship between order and law. Essential." -Choice

    "...concise, engaging, and provocative synthesis..." -Ethan Zadoff, H-Law

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