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Auerbach, Jerold. Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America (1976)
Bakken, Gordon Morris and Brenda Farrington. Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender and the Press (2009)
Barkan, Steven. Protestors on Trial: Criminal Justice in the Southern Civil Rights and Vietnam Antiwar Movements (1985)
Bodenhamer, David. Fair Trial: Rights of the Accused in American History (1992)
Buranelli, Vincent. The Trial of John Peter Zenger (1975)
Burton, Shirley. Obscenity in Victorian America: Struggles Over Definitions and Concomitant Prosecutions in Chicago's Federal Court, 1873-1931 (1991)
Cooper, Cynthia L. and Sam Reese Sheppard. Mockery of Justice: The True Story of the Sheppard Murder Case (1995)
Cortner, Richard. A "Scottsboro" Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi (1986)
Coventry, William. Demonic Possessions on Trial: Case Studies in Early Modern England and Colonial America (2003)
DeSario, Jack P. and William D. Mason. Dr. Sam Sheppard On Trial (2003)
Ferdinand, Theodore. Boston's Lower Criminal Courts, 1814-1850 (1992)
Firmage, Edwin Brown and Richard Collin Mangrum. Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1830-1900. (1988)
Friedman, Lawrence and Robert Percival. The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda, California, 1870-1910 (1981)
Fritz, Christian. Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891 (1991)
Gawalt, Gerald. The Promise of Power: the Emergence of the Legal Profession in Massachusetts, 1760-1840 (1979)
Getes, Victoria. The Juvenile Court and the Progressives (2000)
Herold, David. The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators (1974)
Hill, Francis. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (1995)
Hixson, Walter L. Murder, Culture, and Injustice: Four Sensational Cases in American History (2001)
Ireland, Robert. The County Courts in Antebellum Kentucky (1972)
Knappman, Edward (ed). Great American Trials: From Salem Witchcraft to Rodney King (1994)
Kuntz, William Francis. Criminal Sentencing in Three Nineteenth- Century Cities (1988)
Lawson, John D. ed. 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 17 vols. 1914-1926
Lockwood, Brocton and Harlan H. Mendenhall. Operation Greylord: Brockton Lockwood's Story (1989)
Lubet, Steven. Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (2004)
McGinty, Brian. John Brown's Trial (2009)
Maguire, John. The Lance of Justice: A Semi-Centennial History of the Legal Aid Society, 1876-1926 (1928)
Maeder, Thomas. Crime and Madness: The Origins and Evolution of the Insanity Defense (1985)
Miller, James A. Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial (2009)
Mitgang, Herbert. The Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life and Times of Judge Samuel Seabury. (1963)
Oaks, Dallin and Marvin Hill. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (1975)
Pucci, Idanna. The Trials of Maria Barbella: The True Story of a 19th Century Crime of Passion (1996)
Rehnquist, William H. Grand Inquests: the Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson (1992)
Rosenberg, Charles. The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age (1968)
Rovere, Richard. The Magnificent Shysters: The True and Scandalous History of Howe and Hummel (1947)
Starkey, Marion. The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949)
Tierney, Kevin. Darrow: A Biography (1979)
Train, Arthur. Prisoner at the Bar (1906)
Younger, Richard. The People's Panel: The Grand Jury in the United States, 1634-1941 (1963)
Weinberg, Arthur (ed.) Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom (1989)
Wunder, John. Inferior Courts, Superior Justice: A History of the Justices of the Peace on the Northwest Frontier, 1853-1889 (1979)
Becker, Peter. "The Standardized Gaze: The Standardization of the Search Warrant in the Nineteenth Century" in Jane Caplan and John Torpey eds. Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (2001)
Blake, Kellee Green. "Aiding and Abetting: Disloyalty Prosecutions in the Federal Civil Courts of Southern Illinois, 1861- 1866," Illinois Historical Journal 87 (1994)
Chomsky, Carol. "The United States-Dakota War Trials: A Study in Military Injustice," Stanford Law Review 43 (1990)
Davis, William. "Western Justice: The Court at Fort Bridger, Utah Territory," Utah Historical Quarterly 23 (1955)
Dodge, L. Mara. "Our Juvenile Court Has Become More Like a Criminal Court: A Century of Reform at the Cook County(Chicago) Juvenile Court," Michigan Historical Review 26 (2000)
Flanigan, Daniel. "Criminal Procedure in Slave Trials in the Antebellum South," The Journal of Southern History 40 (1974)
Friedman, Lawrence. "Plea Bargaining in Historical Perspective," Law and Society Review 13 (1979)
Haller, Mark. "Plea Bargaining: The Nineteenth Century Context," Law and Society Review 13 (1979)
Hindus, Michael. "Black Justice Under White Law: Criminal Prosecutions of Blacks in Antebellum South Carolina," Journal of American History (1976)
Ireland, Robert. "The Nineteenth Century Criminal Jury: Kentucky in the Context of the American Experience," Kentucky Review 4 (1983)
Ireland, Robert. "Privately Funded Prosecution of Crime in the Nineteenth Century United States," The American Journal of Legal History 39 (1995)
Kammen, M.G. "Colonial Court Records and the Study of Early American History: A Bibliographic Review," American Historical Review, 70 (1965)
Langbein, John. "Understanding the Short History of Plea Bargaining," Law and Society Review 13 (winter 1979)
Murphy, Lawrence. "Defining the Crime Against Nature: Sodomy in the United States Appeals Courts, 1810-1940," Journal of Homosexuality 19 (1990)
Murrin, John. "Magistrates, Sinners, and a Precarious Liberty: Trial by Jury in Seventeenth-Century New England," in David D. Hall et.al. Saints and Revolutionaries: Essays in Early American History (1984)
Sanborn, Joseph. "A Historical Sketch of Plea Bargaining," Justice Quarterly 3 (June 1986)
Spindel, David. "The Administration of Criminal Justice in North Carolina, 1720-1740," The American Journal of Legal History 25 (1981)
Steinberg, Allen. "From Private Prosecution to Plea Bargaining: Criminal Prosecution, the District Attorney and American Legal History," Crime and Delinquency 30 (1984)
Steinberg, Allen. " 'The Lawman' in New York: William Travers Jerome and the Origins of the Modern District Attorney in 'Turn-of-the-Century New York," University of Toledo Law Review 34 (2003)
Surrency, E.C. "The Courts in the American Colonies," American Journal of Legal History 11 (1967)
Surrency, E.C. "The Evolution of an Urban Judicial System: The Philadelphia Story, 1683-1968," American Journal of Legal History 18 (1974)
Towne, Susan. "The Historical Origins of Bench Trial for Serious Crime," American Journal of Legal History 26 (1982)
Yackel, Peter. "Benefit of Clergy in Colonial Maryland," Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (1974).
Zalman, Marvin. "The Rise and Fall of the Indeterminate Sentence," Wayne State Law Review, 24 (November 1977): 45- 94.
Zanger, Martin. "Conflicting Concepts of Justice: A Winnebago Murder Trial in the Illinois Frontier," Journal of Illinois State Historical Society 73 (1980)