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Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990
Taming the System The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice 19501990
Author: Samuel Walker
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 examines the discretion problem from the initial "discovery" of the phenomenon by the American Bar F...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195078206
ISBN-10: 0195078209
Publication Date: 4/11/1993
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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