The Transformation of Criminal Justice: Philadelphia, 1800-1880

by Allen Steinberg

Book Overview

Allen Steinberg brings to life the court-centered criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system -- dominated by the police and public prosecutor -- that replaced it. He offers a major reinterpretation of criminal justice in nineteenth-century America by examining this transformation from private to state prosecution and analyzing the discontinuity between the two systems. Steinberg...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807818445
• ISBN13: 9780807818442
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"