Legal complexity and the transformation of the criminal process: The origins of plea bargaining

Israel Law Review

Volumn 31, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 183-222

  Feeley, Malcolm M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 85014652535     PISSN: 00212237     EISSN: 20479336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021223700015284     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Crime Control, and the Protection of Victims, Jerusalem, December 19–22, 1993. School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
2. Raymond Moley, “The Vanishing Jury Trial”, (1928) 2 So. Calif. L.R. 97.
3. Wolf Heydebrand and Carroll Seron, Technocratic Justice (1987).
4. Abraham Blumberg, Criminal Justice (1967).
5. See, e.g., Albert Alschuler, “The Prosecutor's Role in Plea Bargaining”, (1968) 36 U. of Chicago L.R. 50;
6. Albert Alschuler, “Plea Bargaining and its History”, (1969) 13 Law and Soc. R. 211; and
7. Stephen Landsman, “The Rise of the Contentious Spirit: Adversary Procedure in Eighteenth Century England”, (1990) 75 Cornell L.R. 497.
8. For other reports on this continuing project and the importance of the expansion of defense counsel, see Malcolm M. Feeley, “Plea Bargaining and the Structure of the Criminal Process”, (1978) 4 Justice System Journal 394;
9. Malcolm M. Feeley, The Process is the Punishment: Handing Cases in a Lower Criminal Court (1979) 135–152, and
10. Malcolm M. Feeley and Charles Lester, “Legal Complexity and the Transformation of the Criminal Process”, in Andre Gouron, Laurent Mayali, Antonio Padoa Schioppa und Dieter Simion, eds., Subjektivierung des justiziellen Beweisverfahrens (1994) 337.
11. Feeley (1978), Subjektivierung des justiziellen Beweisverfahrens, at 35
12. Old Bailey Sessions Papers, Fifth Session, (1918) 298–299.
13. Thomas Wontner, Old Bailey Experience (1833) 59.
14. John Langbein, “The Criminal Trial Before the Lawyers”, (1978) 45 U. of Chicago L.R. 263.
15. See also John Langbein, “Shaping the Eighteenth Century Trial”, (1983) 50 U. of Chicago L.R. 2.
16. See e.g. John Baldwin and Michael McConville, Negotiated Justice: Pressures on Defendants to Plea Guilty (1979) 18.
17. For a history and description of the many new sentencing laws in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, see Sir Leon Radzinowicz, A History of English Criminal Law and its Administration from 1750, vol. 1: The Movement for Reform (1948).
18. Lon Fuller, “The Adversary System”, in Harold Berman, ed., Talks on American Law (1961) 41.
19. For a more detailed discussion of this sample, see Malcolm M. Feeley and Deborah Little, “The Vanishing Female: The Decline of Women in the Criminal Process, 1687–1912”, (1991) 25 Law and Soc. R. 719.