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Crime and Punishment in American History

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Title: Crime and Punishment in American History
Author: Lawrence M Friedman
ISBN: 9780465014873
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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Political Science 1649839

Publisher Description:
In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image. A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, 1993."A major achievement. . . . An impressive panoramic history." "--New York Times Book Review"

"Will become the definitive one-volume history of crime and the criminal process in the United States....Indispensable."--Malcolm Feeley, University of California, Berkeley

"Likely to be the standard introduction to the history of criminal justice in this country well into the twenty-first century." "--Chicago Tribune"