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These records include more than 11,000 reported cases of homicide over a sixty year period, inviting investigation into a multitude of questions related to the law and legal institutions. The records were kept by the police, at least in part to assist police officers who were witnesses and sometimes prosecutors at Coroner’s inquests, grand jury proceedings, and at criminal trials.
How did the institutions of this period differ from their present counterparts? And how did these institutions – the police, the judiciary, the prosecutors, the defense lawyers, the politicians, and crime itself – develop and change?
For more about these subjects, click on: Capital Punishment
Corruption
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