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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG96-B1627Includes index.London: S. Paul, 1914]. xi, 409
p.; 23 cm
1914. So used are we to witnessing new laws made and fresh crimes
created, as well as the constant punishing of all sorts of citizens
- a punishment being always the cheapest and easiest substitute for
a positive remedy - that it is scarcely remarkable that men
generally acquiesce. The author has therefore tried to analyze the
theories and assumptions on which the criminal laws are founded,
and to exhibit their falsity. Contents: Penal methods of the middle
ages; With trials; Treatment of the insane; Banishment; Origin of
the cell prisons; Penitentiary experiments; the model system;
Breakup of the model; Penal servitude; Military despotism; Silent
system; Visitation of the sick; Monotony; Conventional view;
Instinct of retaliation; Classification of crimes and offenders;
Direction of reform; Practical prisons.
So used are we to witnessing new laws made and fresh crimes
created, as well as the constant punishing of all sorts of citizens
- a punishment being always the cheapest and easiest substitute for
a positive remedy - that it is scarcely remarkable that men
generally acquiesce. The author has therefore tried to analyze the
theories and assumptions on which the criminal laws are founded,
and to exhibit their falsity. Contents: Penal methods of the middle
ages; With trials; Treatment of the insane; Banishment; Origin of
the cell prisons; Penitentiary experiments; the model system;
Breakup of the model; Penal servitude; Military despotism; Silent
system; Visitation of the sick; Monotony; Conventional view;
Instinct of retaliation; Classification of crimes and offenders;
Direction of reform; Practical prisons.
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