Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 644 g
Reihe: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 644 g
Reihe: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
ISBN: 978-0-19-510175-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
self-rule that were crucial to Whig efforts to reconsolidate the political power of Boston's social and economic elite. At this time local political institutions were spare and fragmentary, and the courts, she argues, stepped forward as agents of the state to promote social order. Plea bargaining drew
conflicts into the courts while maintaining elite discretion over sentencing policy. She argues that plea bargaining should be seen as part of a larger repertoire of techniques in the Anglo-American legal tradition through which law might be used as a vehicle of rule. In this context, plea bargaining provided a unique match between the needs of elites to maximize flexibility in criminal sanction and an emerging liberal ideology.