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Taming the System - The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990 (Hardcover, New)
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Taming the System - The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990 (Hardcover, New)
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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. Analyzing the origins, nature, and
impact of various efforts to control discretion, Taming the System
is the first comprehensive history of the reform attempts in the
past forty years. Of enormous value to scholars, reformers, and
criminal justice professionals, Walker's book approaches the
discretion problem through a detailed examination of four decision
points: policing, bail setting, plea bargaining, and sentencing. In
a field which largely produces short-ranged "evaluation research",
this study, in taking a wider historical approach, distinguishes
between the roles of administrative bodies (the police) and
evaluates the longer-term trends and the successful reforms in
criminal justice history. Serving as an "interim report" on what
does and does not work in the system, Taming the System concludes
that not only has the effort to control discretion been a unifying
theme in criminal justice history, but that there have actually
been some successes, resulting in reducing disparities in race and
social class.
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