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Plea Negotiations: Pragmatic Justice in an Imperfect World

Plea Negotiations: Pragmatic Justice in an Imperfect World

Flynn, Asher
Freiberg, Arie

Paperback

Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

CriminologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030064751
ISBN13: 9783030064754
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 12 2019
Pages: 277
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Despite a popular view that trials are the focal point of the criminal justice process, in reality, the most frequent way a criminal matter resolves is not through a fiercely fought battle between state and defendant, but instead through a process of negotiation between the prosecution and defence, resulting in a defendant pleading guilty in exchange for agreed concessions from the prosecution. This book presents an original empirical case-study of plea negotiations drawing upon interviews with legal actors and an analysis of defence practitioner case files, to shine light on the processes and ways in which an agreed outcome is reached in criminal prosecutions, within the setting of a jurisdiction, like many others world-wide, which is suffering major shifts in state resources. Plea negotiations, also referred to as plea bargaining, negotiated guilty pleas and negotiated resolutions are neither an alloyed benefit nor a detriment for defendants, victims or the criminal justice system generally, and like all compromises, this book shows how the perfect justice outcome gives way to the good, or just the reasonably acceptable justice outcome.

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