Court Reform on Trial: Why Simple Solutions Fail
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COURT REFORM ON TRIAL is a recognized study of innovation in the process of criminal justice, and why it so often fails-despite the best intentions of judges, administrators, and reformers. The arc of innovation to disappointment is analyzed through such programs as bail reform, pretrial diversion, speedy trials, and determinate sentencing. A much-maligned system of plea bargaining shifts power to prosecutors away from judges, and formal trials recede in importance-but is that really the pr...






















