Taming the System, The Control of Discretion in Crook Justice, 1950-1990

It is a truism that the administration of criminal justice consists of a series of discretionary decisions by authorities, prosecutors, judges, and other authorities. Of huge worth to scholars, reformers, and criminal justice experts, this book approaches the discretion problem through a detailed examination of 4 choice points: policing, bail setting, plea bargaining, and sentencing. In a field which largely produces short-ranged “evaluation research,” this research study, in taking a broader technique, identifies in between the function of administrative bodies (the cops) and evaluates the longer-term patterns and the successful reforms in criminal justice history.

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