Print version: Spillane, Joseph F. History of modern American criminal justice. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, [2013] xi, 343 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9781412981347
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-311) and index
Introduction -- The challenge of policing, 1830s-1920s -- Progressivism and the courts, 1890s-1920s -- Punishment in the progressive era, 1890s-1930s -- Dark days in the South, 1870s-1930s -- Criminal justice research and professionalism, 1920s-1960s -- Liberalism’s twin revolutions, 1930-1960s -- The expanding federal state, 1920s-1990s -- The politics of law and order, 1960s-2000s -- American criminal justice in global context, 1800s-2000s.