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Crime and Punishment in American History by Friedman, Lawrence M. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Crime and Punishment in American History about?
"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." "Lawrence M. Friedman argues that the evolution of criminal justice has reflected transformations in America's character. Thus the theocratic world of seventeenth-century Puritanism generated a peculiar equation between crime and sin. The extraordinary geographic and social mobility of nineteenth-century America produced its own distinctive approach to crime and punishment. And the expressive individualism of the twentieth century encouraged an emphasis on "crimes of the self."" "Crime and Punishment in American History covers vast and fascinating terrain: the Salem witchcraft trials; the Red Scare after World War I; the rise of the American penitentiary; the emergence of the professional detective; the development of laws against fornication and gambling and the reform of rape laws; the rise of the insanity defense; the growth of a prisoners rights movement; and much more. It is about vigilantes, outlaws, embezzlers, swindlers, and what happened to them; about the growth of white-coll
Who reads Crime and Punishment in American History?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Friedman, Lawrence M.
- Publisher
- Basic Civitas Books
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780465014873
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Law, Political Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (99 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14