Jury Trials and Plea Bargaining : A True History.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Preface -- Summary of Contents -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- PROFESSIONALISATION -- CONTEXTUAL ACCOUNTS -- PURPOSE AND THEORY OF THE PRESENT RESEARCH -- Chapter 2: The Political Economy of Criminal Justice in the Mercantile Era -- INTRODUCTION -- THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY -- METHOD OF JUDICIAL GOVERNANCE -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3: Crime Detection and Investigation in General Sessions Prosecutions: 1800-1845 -- INTRODUCTION -- PROPERTY OFFENCES -- CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON -- POLICE OFFICE INVESTIGATION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4: Preparation for Trial in the Mercantile Era -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5: Litigation Practice at Trial 1800-1845: Prosecution and Defence -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROSECUTION'S CASE -- THE DEFENCE CASE -- PROSECUTION REBUTTAL EVIDENCE -- FINAL ARGUMENT-DEFENCE -- FINAL ARGUMENT-PROSECUTION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6: Adjudication by Trial 1800-1845: Judge and Jury -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROMINENCE OF THE JURY -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 7: Adjudication by Guilty Plea -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PLEA PROCESS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 8: Sentencing in General Sessions -- INTRODUCTION -- THE AMBIT OF SENTENCING -- SENTENCING FACTORS -- SENTENCING PROCEDURE -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 9: The Mid-Century Political Economy of Justice and Transformation in Method of Case Disposition -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CITY AT MID-CENTURY -- THE POLITICISATION OF COURTROOM ACTORS -- THE TRANSFORMATION IN METHOD OF DISPOSITION -- OFFENCES AND OFFENDING -- CASELOAD -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 10: Crime Detection and Investigation:1850-1865 -- INTRODUCTION -- REORGANISATION OF POLICE -- OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL -- PROSECUTIONS OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON -- PROPERTY PROSECUTIONS -- THE JUDICIALISATION OF THE MAGISTRATE.

CONCLUSION -- Chapter 11: Litigation Practice in General Sessions: 1850-1865 -- INTRODUCTION -- PRESENCE OF LAWYERS -- PRESENTATION OF DEFENCE WITNESSES -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 12: Structure of Guilty Pleas: 1850-1865 -- INTRODUCTION -- LESSER PLEAS -- NO EVIDENT REASON -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 13: Aggregate Justice and Social Control -- INTRODUCTION -- LEGITIMATION AND CRITICISM -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 14: Understanding System Information -- INTRODUCTION -- FUNCTIONALIST CRITIQUE -- CONTEXTUALIST CRITIQUE -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy.

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