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Politics and Plea Bargaining: Victims' Rights in California

Politics and Plea Bargaining: Victims' Rights in California

Paperback

Series: Law in Social Context

General LawSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0812214331
ISBN13: 9780812214338
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: May 1 1993
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

In 1982, California voters passed Proposition 8, promoted by supporters as the Victims' Bill of Rights, on the initiative ballot. In Politics and Plea Bargaining, Candace McCoy describes the political genesis of victims' rights legislation and the impact Proposition 8 has had on plea bargaining.

Placing Proposition 8 in the context of earlier efforts to reform plea bargaining, McCoy explores the meaning of due process in the criminal courts. Emphasizing the concept of publicness, the book suggests changes that would open the justice system to more public observation and explanation.

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