Criminal Justice Pioneers in U.S. History » (1st Edition)

Mark Jones is Assistant Keeper, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum. He is the author of The Art of the Medal, Medals of the Sun King, The Dance of Death, and Contemporary British Medals, and editor of The Medal and Médailles.

This collection 45 of brief biographies of famous and infamous figures in criminal justice history brings to life the people who have made the field of criminal justice what it is today.

The criminal justice system is dependent upon more than laws and policies¿it is composed of people. The system is only as good or ethical as the people who work in it. Criminal Justice Pioneers in U.S. History. These 45 brief (6 to 8 page) biographies include Allan Pinkerton, Herman Goldstein, Joseph Wambaugh, Wyatt Earp, Earl Warren, and Dorothea Dix.

I. THE THEORISTS' INTRODUCTION.

1. Sutherland, Edwin.

2. Merton, Robert.

3. Wilson, James Q.

II. LAW ENFORCEMENT INTRODUCTION.

4. Pinkerton, Allan.

5. Byrnes, Thomas.

6. Bonaparte, Charles.

7. Earp, Wyatt.

8. Clum, John.

9. Burns, William.

10. Roosevelt, Theodore.

11. Baldwin, Lola G.

12. Vollmer, August.

13. Battle, Samuel.

14. Hoover, J. Edgar.

15. Anslinger, Harry.

16. Wilson, O.W.

17. Ness, Eliot.

18. Gates, Daryl.

19. Goldstein, Herman.

20. Serpico, Frank.

21. Wambaugh, Joseph.

22. Pusser, Buford.

23. Brown, Lee.

24. Harrington, Penny.

25. Macalese, Greg.

III. LAW AND THE COURTS INTRODUCTION.

26. Darrow, Clarence.

27. Baldwin, Roger Nash.

28. Warren, Earl.

29. Kunstler, William.

30. Bailey, F. Lee.

31. Blakey, G. Robert.

IV. CORRECTIONS INTRODUCTION.

32. Eddy, Thomas.

33. Haviland, John.

34. Augustus, John.

35. Dix, Dorothea.

36. Hayes, Rutherford.

37. Brockway, Zebulon.

38. Osborne, Thomas.

39. Van Waters, Miriam.

40. Ragen, Joseph.

41. Duffy, Clinton.

42. Beto, George.

V. JUVENILE JUSTICE INTRODUCTION.

43. Addams, Jane.

44. Lindsey, Ben.