Juliet Haines Mofford

Tales of the country's original criminals-and how the courts punished them for their misdeeds Scarlet Letters, wanton dalliances, Sabbath breaking, and debt: Colonial laws were easily broken and the malefactors who broke them, swiftly punished. How did our ancestors deal with murder and mayhem? How did seventeenth-and eighteenth-century New England communities handle deviants? How have definitions of criminal behavior and its punishment changed over...