Mark Jones, Peter Johnstone

History of Criminal Justice (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Covering criminal justice history on a cross-national basis, this book surveys criminal justice in Western civilization and American life chronologically from ancient times to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317522461
• Artikelnr.: 41781173

Autorenporträt

Mark Jones is Professor of Criminal Justice at East Carolina University. He has authored or co-authored books on the History of Criminal Justice, Community Corrections, Criminals of the Bible, and Criminal Justice Pioneers in U.S. History. His research interests include community corrections, religion and crime, underage drinking, and assassinations.

Peter Johnstone is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas. He has authored books on the History of Criminal Justice, Crime and Policing Crime, Drugs and Drug Trafficking, and Introduction to Criminal Justice and Financial Laws. His research interests include legal history, medieval criminal law, and ecclesiastical law and the use of Benefit of Clergy in Colonial America. He has taught in the UK, Frace, Lithuania, and the USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Criminal Justice in Ancient Times
3. Medieval Crime and Punishment Before the Lateran Council of 1215
4. From the Lateran Councils to the Renaissance (c. 1150-1550)
5. Criminal Justice and the English Constitution to 1689
6. Criminal Justice on the North American Colonial Frontier (1607-1700)
7. The Enlightenment and Criminal Justice
8. The American Revolution and Criminal Justice
9. Freedom and Prisons in the Land of the Free
10. Early Nineteenth-Century Law Enforcement
11. Turning Points in Constitutionalism and Criminal Justice (1787-1910)
12. Penology and Corrections in Modern America
13. The Rise of Criminal Justice Professionalism
14. Criminal Justice and Terrorism: The Era of Homeland Security
Epilogue