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Hard bargains : the coercive power of drug laws in federal court / Mona Lynch.
LIBRA KF3890 .L96 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynch, Mona Pauline, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs of abuse--Law and legislation--United States--Criminal provisions.
- Drugs of abuse.
- Drugs of abuse--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Drug traffic--United States.
- Drug traffic.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure).
- Plea bargaining--United States.
- Plea bargaining.
- Drugs of abuse--Law and legislation--Criminal provisions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 206 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2016]
- Summary:
- The convergence of tough-on-crime politics, stiffer sentencing laws, and jurisdictional expansion in the 1970s and 1980s increased the powers of federal prosecutors in unprecedented ways. In Hard Bargains, social psychologist Mona Lynch investigates the increased power of these prosecutors in our age of mass incarceration. Lynch documents how prosecutors use punitive federal drug laws to coerce guilty pleas and obtain long prison sentences for defendants-particularly those who are African American-and exposes deep injustices in the federal courts. Hard Bargains proposes a broad overhaul of the federal criminal justice system to restore the balance of power and retreat from the punitive indulgences of the War on Drugs. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The First Drug War : Laying the Groundwork
- The Great War : Creating an Infrastructure of Legal Power
- Soft Hammers? : The Deployment of Drug Law in the Liberal Northeast
- Respecting Law and Deterring Lawbreakers? : Hammers and Nails in Southern District
- Drugs, mules, and the looming border
- Inducing the plea : Strategic uses of legal power
- Conclusion
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lynch, Mona Pauline, author. Hard bargains
- ISBN:
- 9780871545114
- 087154511X
- OCLC:
- 958204949
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