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Comment: Law And Disorder In Nineteenth-Century Kentucky, Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau
Comment: Law And Disorder In Nineteenth-Century Kentucky, Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau
Vanderbilt Law Review
Robert M. Ireland's Article, "Law and Disorder in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky," centers on the state constitutional conventions of 1849 and 1890-1891, spiced with newspaper accounts, statutes,court cases, and legislative records. He has said that his Article presents a preliminary overview of some of the principal problems of the criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Kentucky. I hope this means he intends to continue his study so that soon we can expect a full examination of the criminal justice system in that state. I also hope that other scholars then will be inspired by his example to examine other contemporary state criminal justice …