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Jury Trials and Plea Bargaining: A True History


ISBN13: 9781841135168
ISBN: 184113516X
Published: March 2005
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £85.00



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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.

Subjects:
Legal History
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The Political Economy of Criminal Justice in the Mercantile Era
3. Crime Detection and Investigation in General Sessions Prosecutions: 1800–1845
4. Preparation for Trial in the Mercantile Era
5. Litigation Practice at Trial 1800–1845: Prosecution and Defence
6. Adjudication by Trial 1800–1845: Judge and Jury
7. Adjudication by Guilty Plea
8. Sentencing in General Sessions
9. The Mid-Century Political Economy of Justice and Transformation in Method of Case Disposition
10. Crime Detection and Investigation: 1850–1865
11. Litigation Practice in General Sessions: 1850–1865
12. Structure of Guilty Pleas: 1850–1865
13. Aggregate Justice and Social Control
14. Understanding System Transformation