TY - BOOK AU - Dale,Elizabeth TI - Criminal justice in the United States, 1789-1939 T2 - New histories of American law, SN - 9781107401365 (pbk.) AV - HV 9950 DAL PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Criminal justice, administration of - United States - history N1 - Includes index; Machine generated contents note: 1. Criminal justice and the nation, 1789-1860; 2. Law and justice in the states, 1789-1839; 3. Law vs. justice in the states, 1840-1865; 4. States and nation, 1860-1900; 5. Criminal justice, 1900-1935; 6. Rights and the turn to law, 1937-1939 N2 - "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"-- UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=34781 UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36995 ER -