Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990
It is a truism that the administration of criminal justice consists of a series of discretionary decisions by police, prosecutors, judges, and other officials. Taming the System is a history of the forty-year effort to control the discretion. It examines the discretion problem from the initial discovery of the phenomenon by the American Bar Foundation in the 1950s through to the most recent evaluation research on reform measures. Of enormous value to scholars, reformers, and criminal justice professionals, this book approaches the discretion problem through a detailed examination of four decision points: policing, bail setting, plea bargainin…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-507820-6
- EAN: 9780195078206
- Produktnummer: 22684202
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.1 cm 413 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 413
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