Taming the System

The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990

Samuel Walker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

1993
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-507820-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.7.1993
Zusatzinfo	tables and line figures throughout
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 218 mm
Gewicht	413 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-507820-9 / 0195078209
ISBN-13	978-0-19-507820-6 / 9780195078206
Zustand	Neuware