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Do you think it would be desirable to limit the amount of discretion in the criminal justice system? If so, how would you do this-What might be the effects?

LABEL PART 1 & 2 PART 1: Discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system was at one time defined by Roscoe Pound, a legal scholar and educator (1960) as follows: “an authority conferred by law to act in certain conditions or situations in accordance with an official’s or an official agency’s own considered judgment and […]