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Listed here are just a few of the many secondary sources available on the history of criminal law, the courts, jury trials and reform.

J.M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
Available online and Stacks INTL ; KD7876 .B43 1986
John G. Bellamy, Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973).
Stacks ; HV6943 .B44 1973
Jeremy Bentham, The Elements of the Art of Packing As Applied to Special Juries (London: E. Wilson 1821).
Special Collections ; KD7540 .B46 1821 Quarto
Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History (John Briggs, et al. eds., London: UCL Press, 1996).
The Dearest Birth Right of the People of England: The Jury in the History of the Common Law (John W. Cairns & Grant McLeod eds., Portland, Or.: Hart Pub. 2002).
Crime in England, 1550-1800 (J.S. Cockburn ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press 1977).
Available online and Stacks ; HV6943 .C74 1977
John S. Cockburn & Thomas A. Green, Twelve Good Men and True: The Criminal Trial Jury in England, 1200-1800 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).
Available online and Stacks INTL ; KD8400.A75 T94 1988
Patrick Devlin, Note on the Suit At Common Law in England at the Time of the Seventh Amendment(1791). 1979.
Reprint of the journal article, Jury Trial of Complex Cases: English Practice at the Time of the Seventh Amendment, 80 Columbia L. Rev. 43 (1980). Stacks INTL ; KD7540 .D48 1979
Giles Duncombe, Giles. [Trials] Tryals Per Pais: Or, the Law of England Concerning Juries by Nisi Prius, &c (London: John Walthoe, 3d ed. 1695).
Special Collections also has the 4th London edition (1702) [KD7540 .D85 1702] and the 9th Dublin edition (1793) [KD7540 .D85 1793 Quarto]. International Media also has the 1666 edition in microfiche. Special Collections ; KD7540 .D85 1695 Octavo
William Forsuth, History of Trial by Jury (London: J.W. Parker, 1852).
V.A.C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Stacks ; HV8699.G8 G38 1994
Thomas A. Green, Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985).
Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E. P. Thompson & Cal Winslow, Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century (New York: Pantheon Books 1st American ed., 1975).
Policing and Prosecution in Britain: 1750-1859 (Douglas Hay & Francis Snyder eds., New York: Oxford University Press 1989).
Stacks ; HV8195.A2 P635 1989
John Hawles, The English-Mans Right: A Dialogue Between a Barrister at Law and a Jury-Man, Plainly Setting Forth: (London: Printed for R. Janeway, 1680)
Special Collections also has the 1798 American edition: Philadelphia: Alexander Brodie [SPECL KD7540 .H39 1798 Quarto]. International Media also has the 1680 edition on microfiche. Special Collections ; KD7540 .H39 1680 Octavo
Juries, Libel, & Justice: The Role of English Juries in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Trials for Libel and Slander (R.H. Helmholz & Thomas A. Green eds., Los Angeles, Ca.: University of California, Los Angeles 1984).
Stacks INTL ; KD8400 .H444 1984
Richard H. Helmholz, Marriage Litigation in Medieval England (London: Cambridge University Press 1974).
Stacks INTL ; KD753 .H44
John Hostettler, The Criminal Jury Old and New: Jury Power From Early Times to the Present Day (Winchester [England]: Waterside Press, 2004).
Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830 (Norma Landau ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002).
Stacks INTL ; KD612 .L38 2002
John Morgan, Essays Upon I. The Law of Evidence. II. New Trials. III. Special Verdicts. IV. Trials at Bar. And V. Repleaders (3 vols. London: J. Johnson 1789).
Special Collections ; KD8632 .M6 1789 Quarto
James Oldham, The Varied Life of the Self-Informing Jury (London: Selden Society, 2005).
Stacks INTL ; KD7540 .O43 2005
Leon Radzinowicz, A History of English Criminal Law and its Administration from 1750 (5 vols. London: Stevens 1948-.).
Stacks INTL ; KD7850 .R3

General American Sources

David J. Bodenhamer, The Pursuit of Justice: Crime and Law in Antebellum Indiana (New York: Garland, 1986).
State 1st Floor ; KFI3599.M362 C723 1986
Clay S. Conrad, Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine. (Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, 2014)
William L. Dwyer, In the Hands of the People: The Trial Jury's Origins, Triumphs, Troubles, and Future in American Democracy (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, Saint Martin's Press, 2002).
Stacks KF9680 .D89 2002
J. Kendall Few, Trial by Jury, 2 v. (American Jury Trial Foundation, 1993).
Stacks KF8972 .F3 1993
Lawrence M. Friedman, Crime and Punishment in American History (New York: BasicBooks, 1993).
Stacks KF9223 .F75 1993
David Graham, An Essay on New Trials (New York: Gould, Banks, & Co. 1834).
Special Collections ; KF9002 .G74 1834 Quarto
Harry Kalven, Jr. & Hans Zeisel, The American Jury (Boston: Little, Brown 1966).
The result of a study of the American jury system undertaken at the University of Chicago Law School. KF9680 .K34 1966
Michael McConville & Chester L. Mirsky, Jury Trials and Plea Bargaining: A True History (Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart Pub., 2005).
Stacks KF9223 .M33 2005
Frederick Thornton Miller, Juries and Judges Versus the Law: Virginia's Provincial Legal Perspective, 1783-1828 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994).
State 1st Floor ; KFV2478 .M55 1994
Shannon C. Stimson, The American Revolution in the Law: Anglo-American Jurisprudence Before John Marshall (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1990).
Stacks KF8700 .S69 1990
The Principles of Judicial Proof as Given by Logic, Psychology, and General Experience, and Illustrated in Judicial Trials (John Henry Wigmore comp., Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1913).
Available online and in the Stacks KF8935 .W55 1913
Holly McCammon. The U.S. women's jury movements and strategic adaptation : a more just verdict (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Stacks ; KF8977 .M33 2012
Stanton Krauss. Gentlemen of the grand jury : the surviving grand jury charges from colonial, state, and lower federal courts before 1801. (Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2012)
Stacks ; KF9642 .G46 2012

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