Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice

by Samuel E. Walker

Book Overview

This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places contemporary issues of crime and justice in historical perspective. Walker identifies the major periods in the development of the American system of criminal justice, from the small institutions of the colonial period to the creation of the police, the prison, and the juvenile court in the nineteenth century and the search for professionalism in the twentieth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195074513
• ISBN13: 9780195074512
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"