Title: Coercion to Compromise
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: History, Plea bargaining, Social aspects, Social classes, Social aspects of Plea bargaining, Social classes, united states
Places: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: KF9654 .V64 2000