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Vera, Politics, and Reform

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McDonald Douglas Corry. Punishment Without Walls: Community Service Sentences in New York City. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986). xix + 278 pp. Notes, index. $30.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Roy B. Flemming
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Law & Society Review , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , 1988 , pp. 817 - 820
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Copyright © 1988 by The Law and Society Association

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The guilty plea process mixes consensus and concessions with going rates structuring but not determining negotiations when they occur. The imprecision of McDonald's (p. 259) remark that “the exact proportion of . . . pleas that were negotiated is not easy to discern, but it is undoubtedly very high” cannot be ignored when he discusses his “battle model.” See Nardulli et al. (1984; 1985) for a quantitative assessment of individual influences on the guilty plea process and an effort to operationalize the going rate concept.

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NARDULLI, Peter F., FLEMMING, Roy B., and James, EISENSTEIN (1985) “Criminal Courts and Bureaucratic Justice: Concessions and Consensus in the Guilty Plea Process,” 74 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1103.Google Scholar