Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South - Softcover

Ayers, Edward L.

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Exploring the major elements of southern crime and punishment at a time that saw the formation of the fundamental patterns of class and race, Ayers studies the inner workings of the police, prison, and judicial systems, and the nature of crime.

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Edward L. Ayers is at University of Virginia.

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ISBN 10:  0195033833 ISBN 13:  9780195033830
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1984
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