Historic Crimes Justice In Portsmouth New Hampshire

Author : Dr. David Ferland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625847140

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Historic Crimes & Justice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire by Dr. David Ferland Pdf

The first courts handled crimes like lying, idleness and card playing with punishments that ranged from fines to public whipping to death by hanging. Constables kept order until Portsmouth's first police officer took up the shield in 1800. But no force could keep all crime at bay. The court sentenced the beautiful, educated Ruth Blay to hanging on shaky evidence that she might have killed her baby. Business magnate Frank Jones played corrupt politics, succumbed to extramarital temptations and helped make Water Street the red-lighted rum hole destination of the eastern seaboard. Mischievous sailors came into port looking to spend their money, finding ample opportunity in Portsmouth's bowery bordellos. Retired Portsmouth police officer David "Lou" Ferland traces the history of Portsmouth crime and justice from the first courts to today's award-winning police department.

Author : Joseph F. Spillane,David B. Wolcott
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412981347

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A History of Modern American Criminal Justice by Joseph F. Spillane,David B. Wolcott Pdf

"This text focuses on the modern aspects of the history of criminal justice, from 1900 to the present. A unique thematic approach, rather than a chronological approach, sets this book apart from comparable books on the subject, with chapters organized around themes such as policing, courts, due process, and prison and punishment. Making connections between history and contemporary criminal justice systems, structures, and processes, this text offers the latest in historical scholarship, made relevant to the needs of current and future practitioners in the field."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Carol Jones,Jon Vagg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135390839

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Criminal Justice in Hong Kong by Carol Jones,Jon Vagg Pdf

Containing a wealth of archival material and statistical data on crime and criminal justice, Criminal Justice in Hong Kong presents a detailed evaluation of Hong Kong’s criminal justice system, both past and present. Exploring the justice system and the perceptions of popular culture, this book demonstrates how the current criminal justice system has been influenced and shaped over time by Hong Kong’s historical position between ‘East’ and ‘West’. Jones and Vagg’s examination of the justice system not only takes into account geographical changes, like the erection of the border with communist China in 1950 but also insists that any deep understanding of the current system requires a dialogue with the rich and complex narratives of Hong Kong’s history. It explores a range of questions, including: How were Hong Kong's criminal justice institutions and practices formed? What has been its experience of law and order? How has Hong Kong's status as between 'East' and 'West' affected its social, political and legal institutions? Careful and detailed, this analysis of one of the most economically successful, politically stable and safe yet frequently misrepresented cities, is a valuable addition to the bookshelves of all undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Asian law.

Author : Harvard University. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082923239

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Widener Library Shelflist: Sociology by Harvard University. Library Pdf

Author : Rodney Watterson
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612514468

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Whips to Walls by Rodney Watterson Pdf

The abolishment of flogging in 1850 started the U.S. Navy on a quest for a prison system that culminated with the opening of Portsmouth Naval Prison in 1908. During World War I, that prison became the center of the Navy’s attempt to reform what many considered outdated means of punishment. Driven by Progressive Era ideals and led by Thomas Mott Osborne, cell doors remained opened, inmates governed themselves, and thousands of rehabilitated prisoners were returned to the fleet. Championed by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, Osborne’s reforms proceeded positively until Vice Adm. William. Sims and others became convinced that too many troublemakers were being returned to the fleet. In response, FDR led an on-site investigation of conditions at Portsmouth prison, which included charges of gross mismanagement and rampant homosexual activity. Although exonerated, Osborne resigned and initiatives were quickly reversed as the Navy returned to a harsher system.

Author : James Larry Taulbee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216089278

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Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and War Crimes in Modern History by James Larry Taulbee Pdf

Defining "genocide" as an international crime, this two-volume set provides a comparative study of historical cases of genocide and mass atrocity—clearly identifying the factors that produced the attitudes and behaviors that led to them—discusses the reasons for rules in war, and examines how the five principles laid out in the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements have functioned in modern warfare. Written by an expert on international politics and law, Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and War Crimes in Modern History: Blood and Conscience is an easy-to-understand resource that explains why genocides and other atrocities occur, why humanity saw the need to create rules that apply during war, and how culture, rules about war, and the nature of war intersect. The first volume addresses the history and development of the normative regime(s) that define genocide and mass atrocity. Through a comparative study of historical cases that pay particular attention to the factors involved in producing the attitudes and behaviors that led to the incidents of mass slaughter and mistreatment, the author identifies the reasons that genocides and mass atrocities in the 20th century were largely ignored until the early 1990s and why even starting then, responses were inconsistent. The second book discusses why rules in war exist, which factors may lead to the adoption of rules, what defines a war "crime," and how the five fundamental principles laid out in the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements have actually functioned in modern warfare. It also poses—and answers—the interesting question of why we should obey rules when our opponents do not. The final chapter examines what actions could serve to identify future situations in which mass atrocities may occur and identifies the problems of timely humanitarian intervention in international affairs.

Author : Aaron Menikoff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630872823

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Politics and Piety by Aaron Menikoff Pdf

Historians have painted a picture of nineteenth-century Baptists huddled in clapboard meetinghouses preaching sermons and singing hymns, seemingly unaware of the wider world. According to this view, Baptists were "so heavenly-minded, they were of no earthly good." Overlooked are the illustrative stories of Baptists fighting poverty, promoting abolition, petitioning Congress, and debating tax policy. Politics and Piety is a careful look at antebellum Baptist life. It is seen in figures such as John Broadus, whose first sermon promoted temperance, David Barrow, who formed an anti-slavery association in Kentucky, and in a Savannah church that started a ministry to the homeless. Not only did Baptists promote piety for the good of their churches, but they did so for the betterment of society at large. Though they aimed to change America one soul at a time, that is only part of the story. They also engaged the political arena, forcefully and directly. Simply put, Baptists were social reformers. Relying on the ideas of rank-and-file Baptists found in the minutes of local churches and associations, as well as the popular, parochial newspapers of the day, Politics and Piety uncovers a theologically minded and controversial movement to improve the nation. Understanding where these Baptists united and divided is a key to unlocking the differences in evangelical political engagement today.

Author : Duane Hamilton Hurd
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385409361

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History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, New Hampshire, with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men by Duane Hamilton Hurd Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Chandler Eastman Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Manchester (N.H.)
ISBN : BL:A0026381298

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The History of Manchester, Formerly Derryfield, in New Hampshire by Chandler Eastman Potter Pdf

Author : John Milton Whiton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : New Hampshire
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086339819

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Sketches of the History of New-Hampshire, from Its Settlement in 1623, to 1833 by John Milton Whiton Pdf

Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501728440

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Deadly Medicine by Peter C. Mancall Pdf

"An important work of scholarship, with powerful, concise, and objective insights into the complicated history of alcohol use among Native American peoples. Impeccably researched, cogently argued and clearly written, Peter Mancall's book is both an eye-opener for the lay reader and an invaluable resource for the expert."— Michael Dorris, author of The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade's devastating impact on the Indian communities of colonial America. Mancall recounts how English settlers quickly found a market for alcohol among the Indians, and traffic in rum became a prominent source of revenue for the British Empire. In spite of the colonists' growing awareness that some Indians abused alcohol and that drinking threatened the stability of countless Indian villages already decimated by European diseases, they expanded the liquor trade into virtually every Indian community from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. In response, Indians created one of the most important temperance movements in American history, a movement that was nevertheless unable to halt the lucrative commerce. The author follows the trail of rum from the West Indian producers to the colonial distributors and on to the Indian consumers in the eastern woodlands. To discover why Indians participated in the trade and why they experienced such a powerful desire for alcohol, he addresses current medical views on alcoholism and reexamines the colonial era as a time when Indians were forming new strategies for survival in a world that had been radically changed. Finally, Mancall compares Indian drinking in New France and New Spain with that in the British colonies. Forever shattering the stereotype of the drunken Indian, Mancall offers a powerful indictment of English participation in the liquor trade and a new awareness or the trade's tragic cost for the American Indians.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780195071986

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The Oxford Companion to American Military History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erika Janik
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807047880

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Pistols and Petticoats by Erika Janik Pdf

A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon, and kept her badge stuffed in her pocketbook. She wasn’t the first or only policewoman, but she became the movement’s most visible voice. Police work from its very beginning was considered a male domain, far too dangerous and rough for a respectable woman to even contemplate doing, much less take on as a profession. A policewoman worked outside the home, walking dangerous city streets late at night to confront burglars, drunks, scam artists, and prostitutes. To solve crimes, she observed, collected evidence, and used reason and logic—traits typically associated with men. And most controversially of all, she had a purpose separate from her husband, children, and home. Women who donned the badge faced harassment and discrimination. It would take more than seventy years for women to enter the force as full-fledged officers. Yet within the covers of popular fiction, women not only wrote mysteries but also created female characters that handily solved crimes. Smart, independent, and courageous, these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century female sleuths (including a healthy number created by male writers) set the stage for Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski, Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta, and Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, as well as TV detectives such as Prime Suspect’s Jane Tennison and Law and Order’s Olivia Benson. The authors were not amateurs dabbling in detection but professional writers who helped define the genre and competed with men, often to greater success. Pistols and Petticoats tells the story of women’s very early place in crime fiction and their public crusade to transform policing. Whether real or fictional, investigating women were nearly always at odds with society. Most women refused to let that stop them, paving the way to a modern professional life for women on the force and in popular culture.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210010728531

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Selected Crime Issues by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice Pdf

Author : Jeremy Belknap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081901815

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The History of New Hampshire by Jeremy Belknap Pdf