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

by Samuel E. Walker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195078209
• ISBN13: 9780195078206
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"