{"product_id":"devil-made-me-do-it-juliet-haines-mofford-9780762771653","title":"Devil Made Me Do It!: Crime and Punishment in Early New England","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTales of the country's original criminals--and how the courts punished them for their misdeeds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScarlet Letters, wanton dalliances, Sabbathbreaking, 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 the centuries? What were early prisons like? What were the duties of a turn-key? Find out all this and more in \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Made Me Do It.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on early court dockets, diaries, sermons, gaolers' records, and other primary sources, Juliet Haines Mofford investigates historical cases from a time when accused felons often pleaded in their own defense: \"The Devil made me do it!\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the questions that emerge in this fascinating book: Would spinster Sarah Booker be punished today for her 1769 theft of three skeins of linen yarn? Would Joan Andrews still get a T for Theft pinned upon her bodice for cheating a client by placing two stones in the firkin of butter she sold him?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juliet Haines Mofford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0762771658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780762771653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Globe Pequot Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Juliet Haines Mofford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925935456511,"sku":"9780762771653","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_86d79bdf-1575-42e9-81ba-3f0f565e7cc7.jpg?v=1681080226","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/devil-made-me-do-it-juliet-haines-mofford-9780762771653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}