Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939 (New Histories of American Law)

"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"--Provided by publisher. Contents......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 1 Criminal Justice and the Nation, 1789–1860......Page 15 CONGRESSIONAL INACTION......Page 16 THE SUPREME COURT AND CHECKS ON FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW......Page 23 ADDITIONAL CHECKS ON FEDERAL POWER......Page 26 CONCLUSION......Page 28 2 Crime and Justice in the States, 1789–1839......Page 30 PARTIAL TRANSFORMATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE......Page 31 PRACTICES OF PUNISHMENT, 1789-1839......Page 40 SLAVES AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE......Page 45 POPULAR JUSTICE......Page 48 CONCLUSION......Page 52 EXTRALEGAL JUSTICE......Page 54 POLICING......Page 58 CRIMINAL LAW AS SOCIAL CONTROL......Page 61 COURT REFORMS......Page 66 THE INTERSECTION OF LAW AND JUSTICE......Page 70 CONCLUSION......Page 73 4 States and Nation, 1860–1900......Page 74 REFORMING CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE STATES......Page 75 RULE OF LAW AND THE COURTS......Page 82 PUNISHMENTS......Page 86 CENTRALIZING POWER......Page 92 ROUGH JUSTICE......Page 99 CONCLUSION......Page 105 THE SUPREME COURT AND DUE PROCESS......Page 106 CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE STATES......Page 112 REFORM OF THE PETTY COURTS......Page 119 PUNISHMENT IN THE STATES......Page 121 ROUGH JUSTICE......Page 123 CONGRESS AND CRIMINAL LAW......Page 126 CONCLUSION......Page 130 6 Rights and the Turn to Law, 1937–1939......Page 131 FAILURE......Page 132 LEGALISM AND THE TURN TO RIGHTS......Page 137 FROM SOVEREIGNS TO SUBJECTS?......Page 141 Conclusion......Page 145 Bibliographic Essay......Page 148 Index......Page 188 "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"-- Provided by publisher Introduction : a government of men, not laws -- Criminal justice and the nation, 1789-1860 -- Crime and justice in the states, 1789-1839 -- Law versus justice in the states, 1840-1865 -- States and nation, 1860-1900 -- Criminal justice, 1900-1936 -- Rights and the turn to law, 1937-1939.