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Coercion to compromise

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Coercion to compromise : plea bargaining, the courts and the making of political authority
  • Contributor: Vogel, Mary E. [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Published in: Oxford socio-legal studies
  • Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 416 p., [14] p. of plates); ill., map
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195101751.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780199851461; 0199851468
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  • Keywords: Plea bargaining Social aspects History 19th century United States ; Plea bargaining History 19th century Massachusetts Boston ; Social classes History 19th century Massachusetts Boston
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • 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.