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Les discussions et ententes sur le plaidoyer = : Plea discussions and agreements
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ISBN: 0662568095 Year: 1989 Volume: 60. 60 Publisher: Ottawa, Canada : Commission de réforme du droit du Canada,

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Negotiated justice : pressures to plead guilty.
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ISBN: 0855201711 9780855201715 Year: 1977 Publisher: London Robertson


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Decision theory and the legal process
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ISBN: 0669027421 9780669027426 Year: 1979 Publisher: Lexington (Mass.): Heath,


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Strings attached
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ISBN: 1283267454 9786613267450 1400839742 9781400839742 9781283267458 9780691151601 0691151601 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Incentives can be found everywhere--in schools, businesses, factories, and government--influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing. So long as people have a choice, incentives seem innocuous. But Strings Attached demonstrates that when incentives are viewed as a kind of power rather than as a form of exchange, many ethical questions arise: How do incentives affect character and institutional culture? Can incentives be manipulative or exploitative, even if people are free to refuse them? What are the responsibilities of the powerful in using incentives? Ruth Grant shows that, like all other forms of power, incentives can be subject to abuse, and she identifies their legitimate and illegitimate uses. Grant offers a history of the growth of incentives in early twentieth-century America, identifies standards for judging incentives, and examines incentives in four areas--plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, International Monetary Fund loan conditions, and motivating students. In every case, the analysis of incentives in terms of power yields strikingly different and more complex judgments than an analysis that views incentives as trades, in which the desired behavior is freely exchanged for the incentives offered. Challenging the role and function of incentives in a democracy, Strings Attached questions whether the penchant for constant incentivizing undermines active, autonomous citizenship. Readers of this book are sure to view the ethics of incentives in a new light.

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