Legal History: Crime and Punishment Research Guide

Full title: American Criminal Reports: A series designed to contain the latest and most important criminal cases determined in the federal and state courts in the United States, as well as selected cases, important to American lawyers, from the English, Irish, Scotch and Canadian law reports, with notes and references
Georgetown Law Library has an incomplete set, available upon request at the Circulation Desk.

Full title: American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials Which Have Taken Place in the United States From the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day

Full title: Criminal Law Digest: A topically classified digest of significant decisions on criminal law and procedure, including those published in the Criminal Law Bulletin, Vols. 1-13.
Vol. 1: State; Vol. 2: Federal. Updated with supplements.
Available upon request at the Georgetown Law Library Circulation Desk.

6 volumes. Continued by The Criminal Law Magazine and Reporter.
A bi-monthly periodical devoted to the interests of bench and bar in criminal cases. Containing original articles on timely topics, full reports of important cases, and a digest of all recent criminal cases, American and English.

12 volumes. Preceded by The Criminal Law Magazine.
A Monthly periodical devoted to the interests of bench and bar in criminal cases. Containing original articles on timely topics, full reports of important cases, and a quarterly digest of all recent criminal cases, American and English.

Also available in microform and through HeinOnline and Gale, Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926.

This volume by the Chief Justice of Connecticut contains the first American treatise on the law of evidence together with an essay on bills of exchange and promissory notes.

Also available through HeinOnline and Gale, Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926.

Designed first to terrify readers with examples of divine retribution against lives gone wrong, and later to excite prurient imaginations, criminal narratives comprise a significant but forgotten genre of American literature. The representation of crime and the characterization of criminals in these narratives, according to Williams, offer an accurate index of more widespread social transformations, such as the secularization of society and the growth of capitalism. These tales are as fascinating today as they were two and a half centuries ago, and they offer a glimpse of how popular literature functioned in early American society.