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.