Author: Daniel RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The New-York City-hall Recorder
Author: Daniel RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The New-York City-hall Recorder ... Containing Reports, of the Most Interesting Trials and Decisions which Have Arisen in the Various Courts of Judicature, for the Trial of Jury Causes in the Hall ...particularly in the Court of Sessions. With Notes and Remarks, Critical and Explanatory
Author: Daniel RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The First Book of the Law
Author: Joel Prentiss BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The New York City Directory, for ...
Author: Jury Trials and Plea Bargaining
Author: Mike McConvillePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847312055
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book is a study of the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy. Focused upon the apprehension, investigation and adjudication of indicted cases in New York City's main trial tribunal in the nineteenth century - the Court of General Sessions - it traces the historical underpinnings of a lawyering culture which, in the first half of the nineteenth century, celebrated trial by jury as the fairest and most reliable method of case disposition and then at the middle of the century dramatically gave birth to plea bargaining, which thereafter became the dominant method of case disposition in the United States. The book demonstrates that the nature of criminal prosecutions in everyday indicted cases was transformed, from disputes between private parties resolved through a public determination of the facts and law to a private determination of the issues between the state and the individual, marked by greater police involvement in the processing of defendants and public prosecutorial discretion. As this occurred, the structural purpose of criminal courts changed - from individual to aggregate justice - as did the method and manner of their dispositions - from trials to guilty pleas. Contemporaneously, a new criminology emerged, with its origins in European jurisprudence, which was to transform the way in which crime was viewed as a social and political problem. The book, therefore, sheds light on the relationship of the method of case disposition to the means of securing social control of an underclass, in the context of the legitimation of a new social order in which the local state sought to define groups of people as well as actual offending in criminogenic terms. "At a moment when France is poised to adopt plea bargaining, McConville and Mirsky offer the best historical account of its emergence in mid-nineteenth century America, based upon exhaustive analysis of archival data. Their interpretation of the reasons for the dramatic shift from jury trials to negotiated justice offers no comfort for contemporary apologists of plea bargaining as more "professional." The combination of new data and critical reflection on accepted theories make this essential reading for anyone interested in criminal justice policy." Rick Abel, Connell Professor of Law, UCLA Law School "A fascinating account which traces the origins of plea-bargaining in the politicisation of criminal justice, linking developments in day-to-day practices of the criminal process with macro-changes in political economy, notably the structures of local governance. This is a classic socio-legal study and should be read by anyone interested in criminology, criminal justice, modern history or social theory". Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory, London School of Economics.
The New York State Register, for 1843
Author: Orville Luther HolleyPublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1675-1776
Author: New York (N.Y.). Common CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
Report
Author: New York (State). Division of ProbationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Charles R. RodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description