Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice

Name: Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781802206661
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Author: Máximo Langer; Mike McConville; Luke Marsh
ISBN: 9781802206661

Edited by Máximo Langer · Mike McConville · Luke Marsh

Edward Elgar Publishing April 2024

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ISBN-13: 9781802206661
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: April 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Series editors’ preface xvi; Preface and acknowledgements xviii; 1.
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice 1: Máximo Langer, Mike McConville and Luke Marsh; PART I. HISTORICAL FRAMING AND DISPERSION; 2.
The diffusion of plea bargaining and the global administratisation of criminal convictions 10: Máximo Langer; 3.
Plea bargaining in the United States 36: Stephen C. Thaman; 4.
A portrait of guilt from England and Wales: defending against state-induced pleas 58: Luke Marsh; 5.
Plea bargaining in Hong Kong: a question of definition 76: Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng; 6.
Plea Bargaining in Latin America 88: Máximo Langer and Máximo Sozzo; 7.
The increasing reach of negotiated justice in Nordic countries 144: Patrick S. Günsberg; 8.
The evolving approach to plea bargaining in Ethiopia 156: Kassahun Molla Yilma; 9.
Balancing public interest, judicial discretion, the rights of an accused person and victims’ rights in plea bargaining: the case of Kenya and: South Africa 171; Evelyne Owiye Asaala; PART II. ABBREVIATED PROCEDURES/ PLEA BARGAINING ANALOGUES; 10.
Leniency for pleading guilty and acceptance of punishment: an overriding principle of Chinese criminal justice 186: Yu Mou; 11.
A socio-legal analysis of the impact of the ECtHR caselaw on the development of an abbreviated trial system in Hungary 200: Samantha Joy Cheesman; 12.
Plea bargaining in India 215: Mrinal Satish; 13.
Negotiated criminal justice in the Islamic law of modern Muslim states: the rise of the political plea bargain 230: Salim Farrar; 14.
Deferred prosecutions and justice: a whodunnit? 244: Axel Palmer and Nicholas Ryder; PART III. UNDERLYING STRUCTURAL/ THEORETICAL ISSUES; 15.
Guilty pleas, sentencing and sentence ‘discounting’: who is ‘sentence discounting’ really for? 263: Jay Gormley and Cyrus Tata; 16.
Plea bargaining and the risk of wrongful convictions: a comparative overview 277: Mauricio Duce; 17.
Racial and gender disparities in plea bargaining 297: Carlos Berdejó; 18.
Defenses for plea bargaining 312: Michael Conklin; PART IV. IMPLICATIONS FOR TRIAL PROCESSES, LEGAL EDUCATION/TRAINING AND THE VIRTUAL WORLD; 19.
The tentacles of state case management: ‘co-operative’ lawyering and ‘efficient’ disclosure in the context of plea determination 330: Ed Johnston; 20.
Bargaining the rules of evidence 348: Matt Thomason; 21.
Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment 363: Vicky Kemp and Cerys Gibson; 22.
Plea bargaining in the virtual courtroom 379: Thea Johnson; 23.
Women and victims: neglected voices in plea negotiations 391: Monique Moffa, Arie Freiberg and Asher Flynn; 24.
Methodological and analytical strategies in guilty plea research: combatting myths and informing evidence-based procedure 408: Rebecca K. Helm and Bethany Growns; 25.
Criminological approaches to plea bargaining 423: Brian D. Johnson and Sean Houlihan; PART V. LOOKING FORWARD: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH QUESTIONS, METHODS AND PROSPECTS; 26.
The long history of plea bargaining 439: Malcolm M. Feeley and Rosann Greenspan; 27.
English plea bargaining in context: a revisionist history of judicial politics 471: Mike McConville; 28.
Plea bargaining: a misreading of the common law in modernity 493: Mary E. Vogel; 29.
Quo vadis, negotiated justice? A success story or a coercion model? 535: Lorena Bachmaier Winter; 30.
Plea bargaining as second-best criminal adjudication and the future of criminal procedure thought in global perspective 550: Máximo Langer; 31.
Final thoughts: signposting the future 573: Máximo Langer, Mike McConville and Luke Marsh