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Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice
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.
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Bringing together established and emerging scholars from around the world, the Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice examines the history, practice, underlying issues and future evolution of plea bargaining, through which guilty pleas are secured and trials are avoided.
Incorporating academic and practitioner perspectives, this ground-breaking Research Handbook provides a contemporary reflection on the challenges surrounding the societal and legal framing of this enduring feature of the criminal justice landscape. It situates these challenges within the broader discussion on responses to plea bargaining in comparative international and domestic contexts. Exploring the successes and failures of plea bargaining law reforms and practices within a diverse range of trial systems, this Research Handbook lays the foundation for future research and scholarship to enable a clearer understanding of plea bargaining.
Drawing attention to contemporary debates and ongoing controversies, this Handbook will be a vital resource for scholars and students of criminal law and justice, criminology, and sociology and social policy.
Incorporating academic and practitioner perspectives, this ground-breaking Research Handbook provides a contemporary reflection on the challenges surrounding the societal and legal framing of this enduring feature of the criminal justice landscape. It situates these challenges within the broader discussion on responses to plea bargaining in comparative international and domestic contexts. Exploring the successes and failures of plea bargaining law reforms and practices within a diverse range of trial systems, this Research Handbook lays the foundation for future research and scholarship to enable a clearer understanding of plea bargaining.
Drawing attention to contemporary debates and ongoing controversies, this Handbook will be a vital resource for scholars and students of criminal law and justice, criminology, and sociology and social policy.
Critical Acclaim
‘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
– 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
Contributors
Contributors include: Evelyne Owiye Asaala, Lorena Bachmaier Winter, Carlos Berdejó, Samantha Joy Cheesman, Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng, Michael Conklin, Mauricio Duce, Salim Farrar, Malcolm M. Feeley, Asher Flynn, Arie Freiberg, Cerys Gibson, Jay Gormley, Rosann Greenspan, Bethany Growns, Patrick S. Günsberg, Rebecca K. Helm, Sean Houlihan, Brian D. Johnson, Thea Johnson, Ed Johnston, Vicky Kemp, Máximo Langer, Mike McConville, Luke Marsh, Monique Moffa, Yu Mou, Axel Palmer, Nicholas Ryder, Mrinal Satish, Cyrus Tata, Stephen C. Thaman, Matt Thomason, Máximo Sozzo, Mary E. Vogel, Kassahun Molla Yilma
