Crime and punishment : a history of the criminal justice system

Content: 1, From customs to codes : criminal justice in the ancient world --
Code of Hammurabi --
Mosaic Law --
Ancient Greece --
Roman Law --
Notable trials : Socrates (399 B.C.) --
Code of laws --
Book of Exodus XXII --
2. English criminal justice antecedents (570-1725) --
Anglo-Saxon England --
Anglo-Saxon legal tradition --
Anglo-Saxon crime and punishment --
Norman England --
Norman crime and punishment --
The domesday book --
The reforms of Henry II --
The jury --
The Fourth Lateran Council --
The Magna Carta --
The Black Death --
Medieval crime and punishment --
Henry VIII and the Protestant Reformation --
Bridewells and early corrections --
The English Bill of Rights --
Thief taking --
Notable trials : Guy Fawkes (1606) --
3. Criminal justice in early America (1597-1740) --
Virginian and the Southern Colonies --
Massachusetts and the New England Colonies --
Piracy and the Navigation Acts --
Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies --
Colonial law enforcement --
Colonial corrections --
Capital punishment --
Colonial violence --
Notable trials : Salem Witchcraft trials (1692) --
John Peter Zenger (1735) --
4. Criminal justice in Revolutionary times (1718-1797) --
The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights --
The Judiciary Act of 1789 --
The Fieldings --
Patrick Colquhoun --
Police efforts in the Colonies --
The birth of federal law enforcement --
Corrections --
John Howard --
Benjamin Rush --
Walnut Street Jail --
Crime and punishment --
American violence --
American vigilantism --
Notable trials : Boston Massacre Trial (1770) --
Aymette vs. The State --
5. Criminal justice in the new Nation (1777-1834) --
The lawgivers --
Criminal courts --
The Supreme Court --
John Marshall --
The Alien and Sedition Acts --
Law enforcement --
The French Police System --
The London Metropolitan Police --
New York City --
Southern policing --
The Texas Rangers and the Mounted Police tradition --
Corrections --
The Auburn system --
Eastern State Penitentiary --
Capital punishment --
Juvenile delinquency --
Alcoholic Republic --
The Slave Revolts --
Native Americans --
Dueling --
Notable trials : Aaron Burr Treason Trial (1807) --
6. Criminal justice in Antebellum America (1817-1857) --
Voting qualifications --
States\' rights and Federal law --
The Taney Court --
The Fugitive Salve Act --
The Temperance Movement --
Reforms --
The New York City Police --
Federal law enforcement --
Private police and San Francisco vigilantes --
Prison reform --
Juvenile institutions --
Alexander Maconochie and indeterminate sentencing --
The Mary Rogers Murder Case --
Crime --
Capital punishment --
Sectional variations --
Handguns and American culture --
Mob rioting --
Notable trials : Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) --
The San Francisco Vigilance Committee, 1851 --
7. Criminal justice in the Civil War Era (1856-1876) --
Black Codes --
Civil rights Legislation and Due Process --
Birth of drug legislation --
Urban policing --
Federal law enforcement --
State policing --
Private detectives --
Convict leasing --
American Prison Congress --
Elmira Reformatory --
Birth of organized criminal activity --
Capital punishment --
Corruption and the City Boss --
Birth of domestic terrorism --
The New York City Draft Riots --
The Ku Klux Klan --
Reconstruction violence --
Interracial violence --
Notable trials : Trial of the Lincoln Conspirators (1865). 8. Criminal justice in Victorian America (1870-1901) --
The lawgivers --
The South --
Plessy v. Ferguson --
The Comstock Laws --
Federal law enforcement --
The New York City Police Department --The Pinkertons and private policing --
Criminal identification --
Professionalism --
Southern policing --
The West --
The Reformatory Era --
Wayward sisters --
Probation --
The Child Savers and the birth of the Juvenile Court System --
Criminalistics --
Capital punishment --
Lynching --
Labor violence --
Notable trials : Lizzie Borden Trial (1893) --
9. Criminal justice in the Progressive Era (1898-1928) --
The lawgivers --
The White Slave Traffic Act --
The Sullivan Law and handgun legislation --
Drug laws --
The Eugenics Movement --
The Red Scare --
Weeks v. United States --
Civilian police reformers --
Police professionalism --
Federal law enforcement --
State police --
Women and minorities --
Private police --
Technological innovations --
Corrections --
Thomas Mott Osborne and the Mutual Welfare League --
The Federal Prison System --
Capital punishment --
Race violence --
The Ku Klux Klan --
Labor violence --
Notable trials : Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) --
10. Criminal justice in the Crisis Decades (1919-1938) --
Drug enforcement --
Prohibition --
The Wickersham Commission (1929-1931) --
The Seabury Investigation (1930) --
Federal law enforcement --
State policing --
Drug enforcement --
Prohibition enforcement --
Criminology and police professionalism --
The Federal Prison System --
Prison industries --
Prisoner classification --
I am a fugitive from a Georgia chain gang --
The Teapot Dome Scandal (1924) --
Prohibition and organized crime --
Racket busters --
Kidnapping --
Capital punishment --
The St. Valentine\'s Day Massacre (1929) --
Murder Incorporated --
Notable trials : The Scottsboro Trials (1931-1937) --
11. Criminal justice at midcentury (1941-1959) --
Joseph McCarthy and Communist hysteria --
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka --
The U.S. Supreme Court --
Orlando W. Wilson --
William H. Parker and the Los Angeles Police Department --
Federal law enforcement --
The specter of organized crime --
Apalachin Conference --
Capital punishment --
Sensational crimes --
Juvenile delinquency --
The Zoot-Suit Riot --
Notable trials : The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1951) --
12. Nationalization of criminal justice (1960-1977) --
The Supreme Court --
Policewomen --
Federal law enforcement --
Mandatory sentencing --
Prison construction --
Prison riots --
The federal campaign against organized crime --
Rioting and civil disobedience --
Murder --
Notable trials : Gideon v. Wainwright --
Grass-eaters and meat-eaters --
13. Contemporary criminal justice at the end of the Twentieth Century (1980-1999) --
The death of Len Bias and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 --
Mandatory sentencing --
The Brady Handgun Bill and guns in America --
The Insanity Defense and the myth of the \"twinkie defense\" --
The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act --
Community policing --
The NYPD, Bratton, Maple, and Compstat : challenging \"broken windows\" --
Forensic Science --
Fingerprinting evidence under fire --
Truth-in-sentencing and the prison building boom --
Prison privatization --
Supermax prisons --
Juvenile corrections --
Faith-based initiatives --
The crime decline of the 1990s --
Organized crime in America --
Capital punishment (1976-2001) --
Execution versus Life without Parole --
Restorative justice --
Chain gangs and shaming : cruel and unusual or legitimate alternatives? --
Race riots --
Rampage killings --
Notable trials : People v. O.J. Simpson --
14. Criminal justice in the Age of Terrorism (2000-2010) --
USA Patriot Act (2001) --
Patriot Act reauthorization (2005) --
USA Patriot Act Sunset Extension Act of 2009 --
Extraordinary rendition --
Military tribunals --
Torture and the law --
Department of Homeland Security --
Criminal terrorism enforcement in America since 9/11 --
Medical Marijuana and Drug Laws --
Assault weapons and line of duty deaths --
Policing in the age of terrorism --
Police tactics --
The FBI and 9/11 --
U.S. Air Marshals --
High-tech crime fighting --
The Second Chance Act --
The aging prison population --
HIV, AIDS, and mental health issues in prison --
Race, ethnicity, and prison gangs --
White-collar crime --
Bernard Madoff and the return of the Ponzi Scheme --
Subprime mortgage crisis --
Debate over lethal injection --
Juvenile Criminal Justice : life without parole? --
Organ smugglers and cybercriminals --
The War on Drugs --
Restitution --
The immigrant factor in homicide rates --
Newark Experiment --
Who\'s who in criminal justice history.