Plea Bargaining and the Miscarriage of Justice

We examine whether, on average, plea bargaining encourages guilty pleas among defendants who are factually innocent.

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Authors: Beenstock, Michael 1946- (Author) ; Guetzkow, Joshua A. 1974- (Author) ; Kamenetsky-Yadan, Shir (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-72
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Keywords:
Plea bargains
Shadow trial
Innocence effect
Selection Bias
Bivariate probit
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Summary:We examine whether, on average, plea bargaining encourages guilty pleas among defendants who are factually innocent.
ISSN:1573-7799
DOI:10.1007/s10940-019-09441-w