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Author Lynch, Mona Pauline, author.

Title Hard bargains : the coercive power of drug laws in federal court / Mona Lynch
Published New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2016

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Contents Introduction -- The First Drug War : Laying the Groundwork -- The Great War : Creating an Infrastructure of Legal Power -- Soft Hammers? : The Deployment of Drug Law in the Liberal Northeast -- Respecting Law and Deterring Lawbreakers? : Hammers and Nails in Southern District -- Drugs, mules, and the looming border -- Inducing the plea : Strategic uses of legal power -- Conclusion -- Epilogue
Analysis Federal courts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Drugs of abuse -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Criminal provisions
Drug traffic -- United States
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States
Plea bargaining -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- Sentencing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Drug traffic
Drugs of abuse -- Law and legislation -- Criminal provisions
Plea bargaining
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016041734
ISBN 9781610448611
1610448618