Salem Witch Trials

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Annotated Bibliography: Salem Witch Trials
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997.
The author goes back in history focusing on the Salem Witch Trials and relates what happened in the past with what is happening today. Hoffer identifies some aspects such as the rights that people ignore today like defendants’ rights to legal guidance did not exist relating them to today’s instances where children accuse adults.
Woods, Geraldine. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Headline Court Case. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2000. Internet resource.
The author examines instances in the Salem Witch Trials and how the court operated regarding evidence and justice to the accused. Woods states that the prosecutions followed unjust procedures with the judges failing to follow evidence due to the irrationality that loomed in the country inducing pressure on them.
Institoris, Heinrich, Jakob Sprenger, and Montague Summers. The Malleus Maleficarum. New York: Cosimo, 2007. Print.
The Malleus Maleficarum book came to life before the Salem Witch Trials. The authors of the book had a purpose while writing the book which was to advice the judges on how to persecute witches. From that, the writing had a significant impact on the court cases resulting in harsher rulings borrowing from what the book dictated.
Bunn, Ivan, and Gilbert Geis. A tr…