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COERCION TO RESTITUTION: Criminal Processing of Civil Disputes
Author(s) -
ZEMANS FRANCES KAHN
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1980.tb00205.x
Subject(s) - restitution , coercion (linguistics) , criminal justice , political science , law , social control , criminology , human settlement , criminal law , control (management) , deterrence (psychology) , business , sociology , engineering , economics , management , philosophy , linguistics , waste management
Growing efforts to achieve social control through noncoercive means need to be evaluated for the role played by the implicit threat of coercion. This article examines restitutive settlements of selected criminal violations through the active efforts of a county prosecutor's office. The study reveals that it is the threat of coercion underlying the execution of remedies that facilitates efficient processing of commercial disputes in the criminal justice system.