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 trial of witches: a seventeenth-century witchcraft prosecution.

Routledge, 2005.
The book examines a case of two women prosecuted of witchcraft. The authors regard prevalently to the Salem Witch Trials. The text has a significant effect on the conduction of the court processes from how the trial against the two women faired starting well but ended unjustly and, in the way, least expected.
Roach, Marilynne K. The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Print.
The book provides an in-depth analysis of the Salem Witch Trials. The author takes a look at the court proceedings, arrests made, confessions and other factors that surrounded the hysteria during the time. From the text, the Salem Trials left an effect that lasted untill the 19th century where court proceedings evolved significantly.
Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. , 2014. Print.
In the book, the author examines and shows how various factors led to the Salem Witch Trials. Countless occurrences came about before the irrationality affecting the court and prosecution processes. With that arrests, a collection of evidence and execution of those found guilty was somewhat inconsiderate and harsh.
Works Cited
Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. , 2014. Print.
Bunn, Ivan, and Gilbert Geis. A trial of witches: a seventeenth-century witchcraft prosecution. Routledge, 2005.
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997.
Institoris, Heinrich, Jakob Sprenger, and Montague Summers. The Malleus Maleficarum. New York: Cosimo, 2007. Print.
Roach, Marilynne K. The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Print.
Woods, Geraldine. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Headline Court Case. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2000. Internet resource.