Coercion to Compromise

ISBN: 9780195101744

出版社: Oxford Univ Pr

出版年: 2007-11

页数: 432

定价: $ 111.87

装帧: HRD

内容简介

This book examines the origins of the controversial practice of plea bargaining, a procedure that appears to reward the guilty. Contrary to popular perception of plea bargaining as an innovation or corruption of the post-World War II years, this study shows that the practice emerged early in the American Republic. It argues that plea bargaining should be seen as part of a larger repertoire of techniques in the Anglo-American legal tradition through which law might be used as a vehicle of rule.