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Criminal Justice: History

Timeline

Documents

Code of Hammurabi
available through the Avalon Project @ Yale University
Law of Twelve Tables
Fordham University Ancient History Sourcebook
Codex Justinianus
Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook
Metropolitan Police Act of 1829
Establishment of a police office in London.

Bloody Code

Books

Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 by J. M. Beattie
ISBN: 0691101663
Publication Date: 1986-03-01
Not available at DSC. Request through GIL Express.
Criminal Justice History
Call Number: HV7921 .C75
Hanging in Judgement: Religion and the Death Penalty in England from the Bloody Code to Abolition by Potter, Harry
Not available at DSC. Request through GIL Express
Observations on the Criminal Law of England: As It Relates to Capital Punishments and on the Mode in Which It is Administered by Romilly, Samuel
Prisons and Lazarettos by John Howard; Ralph W. England (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
v. 1. The state of the prisons in England and Wales. --v. 2. An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe.
Criminal Justice in America by Roscoe Pound
Call Number: KF9223 .P6 1972
Publication Date: 1972-02-01