The Punishment of Crime in Colonial New York The Dutch Experience in Albany During the Seventeenth Century

Sullivan (criminal justice, State U. of New York-Albany) explains that the criminal justice system of the upper Hudson River Valley was concerned with maintaining not just peaceful social relations, but also the highly profitable fur trade on which the colony depended. He examines the punishment practices of the Beverwijck/Albany court and how they changed with fluctuations in the fur trade and after the English conquest and imposition of their own law in 1664. Granted the 1997 Hendrick's Manuscript Award. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR