Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990 Hard cover - 1993 - 1st Edition
by Samuel E. Walker
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- Title Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990
- Author Samuel E. Walker
- Binding Hard Cover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-05-20
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780195078206_pod
- ISBN 9780195078206 / 0195078209
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.57 x 5.78 x 0.82 in (21.77 x 14.68 x 2.08 cm)
- Reading level 1370
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Library of Congress subjects Criminal justice, Administration of - United, Judicial discretion - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92020014
- Dewey Decimal Code 347.305
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From the rear cover
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.
