Offenders in Court and in Prison, A Study of Criminal Litigation and Correctional Institutions in Iowa by Walter A. Lunden, 1955

(1955) Offenders in Court and in Prison, A Study of Criminal Litigation and Correctional Institutions in Iowa by Walter A. Lunden, 1955. Iowa State University

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Abstract

Thia study has been prepared to help the interested citizen and student of criminology to understand what has been happening in the courts and prisons within the past twenty years. The two subjects of criminal litigation and correctional institutions have been combined into a single volume because the court and the prison are part of the crime-prison problem in our society. What happens in the court has a direct relationship to the prison and what occurs in the prison in time has a bearing on the courts. Justice, therefore, is made of whole cloth and cannot be segmented into separate compartments. The material has been limited to criminal litigation and the correctional institutions in the State of Iowa. The time span covers the Great Depression, the years of World War II and the post-war years to 1952. These two decades have had a marked influence on the judicial processes in the courts and the operation of prisons in the state.