Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990 - Rilegato

Walker, Samuel

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0195078209 ISBN 13: 9780195078206

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1993

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195078209
• ISBN 13: 9780195078206
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia