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INSERÇÃO DA JUSTIÇA NEGOCIADA NO DIREITO PENAL BRASILEIRO: PLEA BARGAINING

Revista de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais da UNIPAR, 2018
Este trabalho tem por objetivo demonstrar que a situação do direito penal brasileiro deve ser modificada, porque o sistema não acompanha a evolução da sociedade, sendo necessária a implementação do direito penal voltado para a eficiência e para a ...
Danilo Kutianski Souza, Doroteu Trentini Zimiani   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plea Bargain Law and the Fight Against Corruption in Nigeria: Between Punishment and Protection

International Studies Journal, 2023
Corruption is endemic and it occurred virtually in all the facets of Nigerian life. Consequently, the inability of the plea bargain law to fight corruption holistically in order to enforce deterrence had resulted in increased corrupt cases as corrupt ...
Olowu Olagunju Folorunso Folorunso
doaj  

Plea Bargaining and Prosecutorial Motives [PDF]

, 2016
This Article argues that the structure of the plea-bargaining system—which the Supreme Court recently recognized “is the criminal justice system”—hinges on something previously unappreciated by scholars and unaddressed in criminal procedure doctrine ...
Gerstein, Charlie
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Negotiating About Charges and Pleas: Balancing Interests and Justice [PDF]

, 2014
There is a worldwide movement towards alternatives to judicial decision-making for legal disputes. In the domain of criminal sentencing, in Western countries more than 95 % of cases are guilty pleas, with many being decided by negotiations over charges ...
Mackenzie, G, Vincent, A, Zeleznikow, John   +2 more
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The role of defendant race, expert testimony and interrogation coerciveness on Canadian mock jurors' perceptions of recanted confessions

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose In some contexts, US‐based White jurors appear to exhibit a heightened focus on legally relevant information when the defendant is Black as compared to White. The current study tested this ‘watchdog’ effect in the Canadian context by examining mock jurors' decisions using a trial involving a recanted confession with an Indigenous or a ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
wiley   +1 more source

The plea bargain as a criminal policy instrument: the tension about the fundamental guarantees of the defendant

Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2017
The present research intends to analyze the plea bargaining based on its political-criminal foundation, in order to achieve the tension it maintains in relation to certain fundamental guarantees of the defendant, especially the one who signs the ...
Murilo Thomas Aires, Fernando Andrade Fernandes   +1 more
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiated plea agreements in cases of serious and complex fraud in England and Wales: a new conceptualisation of plea bargaining? [PDF]

, 2013
This article examines negotiated plea agreements introduced by the Attorney General in 2009 for cases of serious or complex fraud, and the degree to which these differ from plea agreements reached through informal plea bargaining in other types of ...
Alge, Daniele
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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Green Subsidies and the Promotion of Eco‐Social Policy in Germany and the United States

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The climate crisis poses an acute threat to humanity. Eco‐social policy can help mitigate this threat, but eco‐social policy and the green transition are expensive. Our paper contributes to a better understanding of the role that green subsidies play in advancing eco‐social politics and policies.
Benedikt Bender, Daniel Kinderman
wiley   +1 more source