Jury Trials and Plea Bargaining: A True History

by Mike McConville, Chester L. Mirsky, Chesterl Mirsky

This book is a study of the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy. Focused upon the apprehension, investigation and adjudication of indicted cases in New York City's main trial tribunal in the nineteenth century - the Court of General Sessions - it traces the historical underpinnings of a lawyering culture which, in the first half of the nineteenth century, celebrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184113516X
• ISBN13: 9781841135168
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"