Discretionary Justice: Pardon and Parole in New York from the Revolution to the Depression

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DISCRETIONARY JUSTICE
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Dedication
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pardon and Parole in the Empire State
1. Governing Mercy in the Emerging Republic
2. Mercy and Diversity: The Pardon Power in the Early National Period
3. Debating the Pardon in Antebellum New York
4. The Pardon and the Progenesis of Parole in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
5. Reformulating Discretion in the Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century
6. The Entanglement of Parole and Pardoning in the Progressive Era
7. The Crime Wave and the War against Discretionary Justice in the 1920s
Epilogue: Mercy, Parole, and the Failed Search for Penal Certainty
Note on Sources
Governors of New York, 1777–1942
Tables
	Table 1. Factors Mentioned as Grounds for Clemency in Case Files
	Table 2. Clemency Rates in File Sample by Period and Type of Disposition
	Table 3. Crime Categories in Sample and in NYSA Database of Clemency Files
	Table 4. Gender in Sample and in NYSA Database of Clemency Files by Period
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author