(Read free) Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990
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| #367904 in Books | Samuel E Walker | 1993-05-20 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.81 x.87 x8.56l,.91 | File Name: 0195078209 | 208 pages | Taming the System The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice 1950 1990
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Useful for some things, but heavy bias and exagerated claims decreases quality|By G. Gawne|Walker's text is largely an account of the history of major discretionary control measures in the latter half of the 20th century. It's historical account is useful as a resource, and contains a good amount of detail while not loosing site of a larger picture.
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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 examines the discretion problem from the initial "discovery" of the phenomenon by the American Bar Foundation in the 1950s through to the most recent evaluation research on reform measures. Of enormous value to scholar...
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