Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
ISBN 13 | 9780195101744 |
ISBN 10 | 019510174X |
Author | Mary E. Vogel |
Book Format | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Book Description | This book examines the origins of the controversial practice of plea bargaining, a procedure that appears to reward the guilty. Contrary to popular perception of plea bargaining as an innovation or corruption of the post-World War II years, this stud |
About the Author | Dr. Mary E. Vogel is Reader at King's College London School of Law having received her doctorate from Harvard University and taught previously at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Santa Barbara. |
Publication Date | 2007-11-29 |
Number of Pages | 448 pages |
Coercion to Compromise: Plea Bargaining, the Courts, and the Making of Political Authority