Criminal Justice in Colonial America: 1606-1660

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ISBN-10:

082030624X

ISBN-13:

9780820306247

Author(s): Chapin, Bradley
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1983
Format: Hardcover, 244 pages
Related ISBN: 9780820336916

Description:

This study analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies.Bradley Chapin addresses the often-debated question of the ";reception"; of English law and makes estimates of the relative weight of the sources and methods of early American law. A main theme of his book is that colonial legislators and judges achieved a significant reform of the English criminal law at a time when a parallel movement in England failed. The analysis is made specific and concrete by statistics that show patterns of prosecutions and crime rates.In addition to the exciting and convincing theme of a ";lost period"; of great creativity in American criminal law, Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings, noteworthy criminal cases, and judi

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