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Colonial Period
- European settlement of North America
- Factors influencing early colonial law
- Differences from the English criminal justice system
- English Common Law
- Salem Witchcraft Trials
- Colonial courts
- Local courts and magistrates
- The legal process
- Criminal law
- Policing the Colonies
- Punishment
- The Colonial Criminal in the Seventeenth Century
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