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Crime, Justice and Retribution in the American West, 1850-1900 (Paperback)
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Crime, Justice and Retribution in the American West, 1850-1900 (Paperback)
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Western stories and motion pictures are full of images of badmen
swaggering about the Old West, brought to justice only by valiant
lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights. In reality, this
type of writing consists mostly of invented and anecdotal tales.
After a shootout, real lawmen doing their legitimate job in the Old
West did not simply walk away from a gunfight, as commonly depicted
in the movies. They had to face the legal system and justify a
shooting, the same as the criminals they arrested. To provide a
more realistic account of criminal justice, this book is a factual
history of crime and punishment in the Old West from about 1850 to
1900. The focus is how criminals in the Old West came into conflict
with the law and what happened after they were apprehended. This
book describes the entire criminal justice process, starting with
common crimes committed in the Old West, from crimes such as train
robbery and cattle theft, to criminal assault, and gunfights. The
narrative discusses methods of apprehension of criminals and the
final resolution of their crimes through the criminal justice
system, followed by the consequences for the lawbreaker, which
included local jail, state prisons, flogging, or (if the crime were
severe enough) hanging. Topics are illustrated using stories of
actual criminals, lawmen, and crimes as examples.
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