The Devil on Trial
Witches, Anarchists, Atheists, Communists, and Terrorists in America's Courtrooms
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Format: Book
Description: 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Featuring five famous trials, this book examines the way an individual's right to a fair trial can be threatened when people are tempted to abandon their principles in the name of safety.
Contents:
The Salem witch trials -- The Haymarket bomb trial -- The Scopes "monkey" trial -- The trials of Alger Hiss -- The trials of Zacarias Moussaoui.
Subjects:
Trials -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History.
Trials -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History.
Target Audience: 1250L
ISBN:
9780618717170
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LAW Mar | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203] - 207) and index.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 10.0 9
A Junior Library Guild selection
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 10.0 9
A Junior Library Guild selection