3rd Edition

A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System

By Mitchel P. Roth Copyright 2019
664 Pages
by Routledge

664 Pages
by Routledge

664 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment. It follows the evolution of the criminal justice system chronologically and, when necessary, offers parallels between related criminal justice issues in different historical eras. From its antecedents in... Read more

Preface

1. From Customs to Codes: Crime and Criminal Justice in the Ancient World

2. Crime and Criminal Justice: English Antecedents

3. Crime and Criminal Justice in Early America (1597–1740)

4. Crime and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary Times (1740–1797)

5. Crime and Criminal Justice in the New Nation (1797–1834)

6. Crime and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America (1835–1857)

7. Crime and Criminal Justice in The Civil War Era (1856–1875)

8. Crime and Criminal Justice in Victorian America (1876–1901)

9. Crime and Criminal Justice in the Progressive Era (1900–1919)

10. Criminal Justice in the Crisis Decades (1920–1940)

11. Crime and Criminal Justice at Midcentury (1940–1959)

12. Crime and the Nationalization of Criminal Justice (1960–1979)

13. Crime and Criminal Justice at the End of the Twentieth Century (1980–1999)

14. Crime and Criminal Justice in the Age of Terrorism (2000–2010)

15. Crime and Criminal Justice in Contemporary America (2011-2018)

Conclusion

Glossary

Who’s Who in Criminal Justice History

Appendices

Biography

Mitchel P. Roth is Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sam Houston State University, USA, and is the author of Global Organized Crime, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2017).