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Taming the system
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- Book Synopsis
- Since the American Bar Foundation Survey of the Administration of Criminal Justice (1953 - 1969) "discovered" the phenomenon of discretion in criminal justice, it has become something of a truism that the administration of criminal justice in the United States consists of a series of discretionary decisions by officials in regard to police discretion, bail, plea bargaining and sentencing. This book is a history of the attempts over the past forty years to control these discretionary powers in the criminal justice system. Walker brings together an enormous literature in a synthesis that will be of great value to professionals, reformers and students of the criminal justice system. In a field which largely produces short-ranged "evaluation research", this study, in taking a wider approach, distinguishes between the role of the courts and the role of administrative bodies (the police) and evaluates the longer-term trends and the successful reforms in criminal justice history.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780195078206
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (29 July 1993)
- Number of Pages
- 191
- Weight
- 413 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 218 x 147 x 20.8 mm
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