Justice Deferred Is Justice Denied By Jed S. Rakoff | The New York Review Of Books

How Big Corporations Evade Real Justice
A Wall Street road sign is pictured near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) building on October 16, 2014 in New York. US stocks dropped sharply in early trade Thursday, following international markets downward as anxiety over global growth continued to prompt selling. About 30 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 16,062.34, down 79.40 points (0.49 percent). AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
A Wall Street road sign is pictured near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) building on October 16, 2014 in New York. US stocks dropped sharply in early trade Thursday, following international markets downward as anxiety over global growth continued to prompt selling. About 30 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 16,062.34, down 79.40 points (0.49 percent). AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

So-called “deferred prosecutions” were developed in the 1930s as a way of helping juvenile offenders. A juvenile who had been charged with a crime would agree with the prosecutor to have his prosecution deferred while he entered a program designed to rehabilitate such offenders. If he successfully completed the program and committed no other crime over the course of a year, the charge would then be dropped.

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