[PDF.51es] Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990

Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990

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 | #797598 in Books |  Samuel E Walker |  1993-05-20 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.81 x.87 x8.56l,.91 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

 | Taming the System The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice 1950 1990

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||3 of 3 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.

There are two mai| ||"Displays a formidable command of the relevant literature...A concise and balanced overview of a critical dimension in the operation of the criminal justice system."--CHOICE||"[A] comprehensive, very well-organized, and informative account..."--C

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 scholars...

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