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

di Samuel Walker (Autore)

Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

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.

• Autore: Samuel Walker
• Editore: Oxford University Press Inc
• Anno: 1993
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 208 p.
• Dimensioni: 218 x 147 mm
• Peso: 413 gr.
• EAN: 9780195078206

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