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Author:

Train, Arthur Cheney, 1875-1945.

Title:

Courts and criminals, by Arthur Train.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

1926

Description:

304 p. illus. 20 cm.

Subject:

Justice, Administration of--United States.
Criminals--United States
Crime--United States.

Other Titles:

Courts, criminals and the Camorra.
The prisoner at the bar.

Notes:

Reprint of material previously published in the author's Courts, criminals and the Camorra and in his The prisoner at the bar.

Contents:

The pleasant fiction of the presumption of innocence.--Preparing a criminal case for trial.--Sensationalism and jury trials.--Why do men kill?--Detectives and others.--Detectives who detect.--Women in the courts.--Tricks of the trade.--What fosters crime.--Insanity and the law.--The mala vita in America.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1312113

LCCN:

39020888

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)