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The Transformation of Criminal Justice: Philadelphia, 1800-1880
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Allen Steinberg brings to life the court–centered criminal justice system of nineteenth–century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system — dominated by the police and public prosecutor — that replaced it. He offers a major reinterpretation of criminal justice in nineteenth–century America by examining this transformation from private to state prosecution and analyzing the discontinuity between the two systems.
Steinberg first establishes why the courts were the so...