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Designing Plea Bargaining from the Ground Up: Accuracy and Fairness Without Trials as Backstops [PDF]
American criminal procedure developed on the assumption that grand juries and petit jury trials were the ultimate safeguards of fair procedures and accurate outcomes.But nowthat plea bargaining has all but supplanted juries, we need to think through what
Bibas, Stephanos
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Green Subsidies and the Promotion of Eco‐Social Policy in Germany and the United States
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
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“I Wish I Had Better Answers”: Organizational Ignorance in US Criminal Courts
ABSTRACT Systems of monetary sanctions in US criminal courts present an opportunity for furthering the sociological understanding of complex and consequential organizations. We examine whether and how court actors across eight states understand the organizational processes supporting the fiscal logic of legal financial obligations (LFOs).
Sarah K. S. Shannon +3 more
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El artículo analiza la implementación e influencia del sistema procesal norteamericano en otras jurisdicciones, con especial énfasis en el procedimiento penal y el denominado juicio abreviado.
Máximo Langer
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Making a Deal in Criminal Law [PDF]
Professor Alkon describes her experiences using plea bargaining exercises in her first year, first semester, criminal law ...
Alkon, Cynthia
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ABSTRACT This paper examines how political and administrative elites shape regime transformations under authoritarian rule, proposing an elite‐centered analytical perspective that complements prevailing accounts of “democratic backsliding.” We show how embedding political–administrative relations within a broader elite‐theoretical framework clarifies ...
Kutsal Yesilkagit, Johan Christensen
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Plea Bargaining with Budgetary Constraints [PDF]
In this paper, we construct a simple model that illustrates a perverse effect associated with plea bargaining in which an increase in sanctions can lead to reduced deterrence.
Joanne Roberts, Steeve Mongrain
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Why Plea Bargains Are Not Confessions [PDF]
Is a plea bargain a type of confession? Plea bargaining is often justified as, at its core, a process involving in-court confession. The U.S. Supreme Court\u27s early decisions approved plea bargains as something more than a confession which admits that
Garrett, Brandon L.
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Front‐Footed Defense: Leveraging Early Counsel Intervention for Expedited Justice
ABSTRACT Contemporary criminal justice systems have increasingly prioritized efficiency as a key guiding principle in their institutional processes. This research examines the role of defense counsel to analyze whether and how lawyers strategically adapt their advocacy methods as they balance the demands of procedural efficiency with their professional
Chengchen He, Enshen Li
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