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

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

Samuel Walker

208 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics reference sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 e...

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