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Crime And Punishment In American History
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by Lawrence Friedman
Sales Rank: 214611
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List Price: $27.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 590 pages
Published by: Basic Books September 8, 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0465014879
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0465014873
Book Dimensions:
7.8 x 5 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Reader Reviews
This is not a history book; it is one long editorial for a left wing view of the criminal justice system. Even when I agreed with Friedman's views, I found his repetitive political claims, given with no factual support, frustrating in a book supposedly reviewing how we got here. Even when Friedman discussed history, he does so without objective support. Typically, Frieman cites some broad principal and then "proves" it with a single anecdote. Thus, e.g. he claims that police generally "believe in fighting fire with fire", stating "Police brutality was part of a more general system of police power. It rested on a simple credo: the battalions of law and order had the right, if not the duty, to be tough as nails with criminals. Force was the only language the criminal understood." (Pg. 361). Now, this may very well be a true statement (although again typically Friedman is not clear as to the time period in our history for which he is making the claim) but it is hardly proven as a general proposition by the evidence that Friedman provides: a single story about a street cop named McCloy who in December 1914 in Brooklyn apparently knocked out an "eighteen-year old no-good" named Peter Gaimano with McCloy's nightstick after Gaimano struck at the officer with a blackjack and ran. The book goes on for almost 500 pages in this vein, along the way making clear Friedman's hostility to criminal prosecutions of almost every kind. Through it all, he offers no alternatives to the systems that he deplores. Whatever, if the reader is looking for history (as versus social commentary), I strongly recommend you look elsewhere.
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