Crime And Punishment In American History
By (Author) Lawrence Friedman
Basic Books
Basic Books
9th September 1994
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Jurisprudence and general issues
347.3055
Paperback
590
Width 205mm, Height 126mm, Spine 35mm
654g
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 is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University. he is also the author nof many books, including A History of American Law, Total Justice, The Republic of Choice, and The Roots of Justice.