RT Book
T1 Hard bargains: the coercive power of drug laws in federal court
A1 Lynch, Mona Pauline
LA English
PP New York
PB Russell Sage Foundation
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1626015694
AB "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 bragains, 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"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 185-193
CN a
SN 9780871545114
K1 Drugs of abuse : Law and legislation : Criminal provisions : United States
K1 Drug traffic : United States
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : United States
K1 Plea Bargaining : United States
K1 Social Science : Criminology
K1 Law : Criminal Law : Sentencing
K1 Social Science : Sociology : General
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of
K1 Drug traffic
K1 Drugs of abuse : Law and legislation : Criminal provisions
K1 Plea Bargaining
K1 Sentences (Criminal procedure) : United States
K1 USA : Betäubungsmittelstrafrecht : Strafrechtspflege : Strafverfahren : Staatsanwaltschaft : Verständigung : Rechtsfolge