Carolyn Ramsey does research at the intersection of criminal law, criminal procedure, and legal history. She specializes in using archival materials to bring new insights to our understanding of how criminal law doctrine developed and how social norms affected legal outcomes. She is especially interested in the legal history of intimate-partner violence, homicide law, police practices, and prosecutorial discretion. She is completing a book on government intervention in intimate-partner violence before the Battered Women's Movement and launching a new, critical research emphasis on 'history and tradition' in criminal procedure with special attention to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century policing. Her research is not limited to legal history; she also writes about the reform of modern criminal law and analyzes the relevance of legal history to modern constitutional issues.
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American and comparative legal history, criminal law, intimate-partner violence, criminal procedure, gender and law
