Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-372) and index.
Contents
Liquor laws, murder cases, and the prosecutor's power to charge -- The prosecutor's motives in plea bargaining -- On-file plea bargaining and the rise of probation -- The defendant's power to plead -- Judges and the power to sentence -- Social and political theories of plea bargaining's rise -- Explaining plea bargaining's progress elsewhere -- The power of plea bargaining -- The balance of power to plea bargain.