Criminal judges
Subtitle: legitimacy, courts and state-induced guilty pleas in Britain
By: Mike McConville, emeritus professor, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Luke Marsh, assistant professor, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contributors: Marsh, Luke, author
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781782548911; 9781782548928
Subjects: Fair trial; Administration of Criminal justice; Criminal courts; Plea bargaining; Judges
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Criminal justice : system, process and legitimacy --; title: Helping the police with their inquiries --; title: State-induced guilty please and legitimacy --; title: Lowering the bar --; title: Institutional distress : the state --; title: Institutional distress : the defence --; title: Scotland : coercion and discourse ---- Conclusion.