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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299866803321

Autore

Flynn Asher

Titolo

Plea Negotiations : Pragmatic Justice in an Imperfect World / / by Asher Flynn, Arie Freiberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-92630-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 277 p. 18 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

Disciplina

345.072

Soggetti

Trials

Criminal justice, Administration of

Human rights

Criminology

Sex and law

Victimology

Juries and Criminal Trials

Criminal Justice

Human Rights and Crime

Gender, Sexuality and Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Plea Negotiations in Context -- 3. Defining Plea Negotiations -- 4. Other Forms of Negotiations -- 5. The Negotiation Process -- 6. Negotiation Outcomes -- 7. Plea Negotiations and Sentencing -- 8.n Pragmatic Justice: At Any Cost? -- 9. Building Trust and Confidence in the Criminal Justice System -- 10. Concluding Comments. .

Sommario/riassunto

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. Asher Flynn is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Social and Political Sciences Graduate Research Program, Monash University, Australia. Arie Freiberg is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Australia.