Coercion to Compromise - Vogel, Mary E. (Visiting Assistant Professor, Law and Society Program, Visiting Assistant Professor, Law and Society Program, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Examines the origins of the controversial practice of plea bargaining, a procedure that appears to reward the guilty. Contrary to popular perception of plea bargaining as an innovation or corruption of the post-World War II years, this study aims to show that the practice emerged early in the American Republic.