Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice

Edited by Máximo Langer, David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law, US, Mike McConville, Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, UK and Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Luke Marsh, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Door Tenant at 25 Bedford Row, London, UK

Contents:

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