Coercion to compromise
Subtitle: plea bargaining, the courts, & the making of political authority
By: Mary E. Vogel.
Series: Oxford socio-legal studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Plea bargaining -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Plea bargaining -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century; Social classes -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
Description: Examining the origins of the controversial practice of plea bargaining, this study shows the procedure to have emerged early in the American Republic. Vogel argues that it arose in the 1830s as part of a process of political stabilisation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.