Decision‐making in the Criminal Courts
Continuities and Discontinuities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9680499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rodney Kingsnorth (California State University, Sacramento, corresponding author), LOUIS RIZZO (California State University, Sacramento) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-14 |
| Publication date | 1979-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1979.tb01271.x |
| OpenAlex | W1509675346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article attempts an analysis of the relationship between the guilty‐plea bargaining process and presentence investigation reports. It is argued that because plea‐bargaining has increasingly come to involve bargaining over sentence. probation officers, as a consequence, have increasingly come to experience encroachment upon their decision‐making autonomy. In this predicament they have found little support from judges, who, committed to norms of managerial efficiency will reassert the primacy of the plea‐bargain when probation officers refuse to ratify previously negotiated sentence agreements. The policy implications of this for the criminal justice system are discussed
Autonomy · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Law and economics · Plea · Political science · Sentence · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Criminal Law and Evidence · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2014 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |