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Coercion to Compromise: Plea Bargaining, the Courts, and the Making of Political Authority (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)
Coercion to Compromise Plea Bargaining the Courts and the Making of Political Authority - Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Author: Mary E. Vogel
Plea bargaining is one of the most striking features of American courts. The vast majority of criminal convictions today are produced through bargained pleas. Where does the practice come from? Whose interests does it serve? Often plea bargaining is imagined as a corruption of the court during the post-World War II years, paradoxically rewarding...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195101744
ISBN-10: 019510174X
Publication Date: 11/20/2007
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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