Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice

by Samuel E. Walker

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This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places contemporary issues of crime and justice in historical perspective. Walker identifies the major periods in the development of the American system of criminal justice, from the small institutions of the colonial period to the creation of the police, the prison, and the juvenile court in the nineteenth century and the search for professionalism in the twentieth century...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195074513

ISBN13:9780195074512

Release Date:September 1997

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.63 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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Administrative Law Americas Civil Law Criminal Law Criminology History Humanities Law Legal History Linguistics Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks Words, Language & Grammar

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