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- Title
"IT IS HIS FIRST OFFENSE. WE MIGHT AS WELL LET HIM GO": HOMICIDE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN CHICAGO, 1875-1920.
- Abstract
The article chronicles criminal justice reform and legal modernization in Chicago, Illinois during the years 1870 through 1920. Despite the common instances of feuds ending in lethal violence, offenders in Chicago were routinely exonerated during that time period. The author examines the social conditions which allowed Chicagoans to murder without legal ramifications and argues that the city was unique only in the degree to which juries exonerated defendants because comparable cities throughout the U.S. also saw high levels of acquittal as compared to modern times.
- Subjects
CHICAGO (Ill.); ILLINOIS; UNITED States; SOCIAL history; HISTORY of criminal procedures; CRIMINAL law; LAW reform -- Social aspects; MURDERERS; HISTORY; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Journal of Social History, 2006, Vol 40, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0022-4529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jsh.2006.0067