Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice

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Edited by Máximo Langer, David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law, US, Mike McConville, Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, UK and Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Luke Marsh, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Door Tenant at 25 Bedford Row, London, UK

Bringing together established and emerging scholars from around the world, the Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice examines the practice of plea bargaining, through which guilty pleas are secured and trials are avoided.

‘The United States, the home of plea bargaining, has used the practice to construct the largest system of human incarceration in the history of the world. Brimming with comparative insights, the international experts here offer a cautionary chorus, warning the world of an epidemic of plea bargaining now spreading across the globe.’
– Andrew Manuel Crespo, Harvard Law School, US

‘The full adjudicative process is everywhere in decline, replaced by various forms of negotiated or bargained justice. Langer, McConville and Marsh subject these new forms of justice to theoretical analysis from a variety of perspectives and offer thoughtful reflections about their likely future. The Research Handbook contains a wealth of new insights and will be of great interest to all those who are interested in contemporary criminal procedure.’
– Mirjan Damaška, Yale Law School, US

‘This Research Handbook is a milestone in contemporary criminal justice scholarship. It cuts across legal traditions addressing corporate offender deal-making, empirical studies, ethical failures, myth, inequality, gender and race, revealing the global spread of failed justice through coercive incentives to concede guilt, powerfully exposing the industrial scale “administratization” of guilty pleas, the underbelly reality of today’s structurally re-shaped criminal justice.’
– Jill Hunter, University of New South Wales, Australia

‘An extraordinarily ambitious project, the Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice provides an indispensable resource for understanding the worldwide diffusion of procedural shortcuts to the formal adjudication of guilt. Beyond mere description, the Research Handbook offers incisive normative critique and perceptive guidance for future research. An invaluable contribution.’
– Stephen J. Schulhofer, New York University School of Law, US