Plea-Bargaining Law: the Impact of Innocence, Trial Penalty, and Conviction Probability on Plea Outcomes

Despite the prevalence of guilty pleas, we know relatively little about factors that influence the decision to plead. Replicating and extending Dervan and Edkins’ Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology , 103, 1-48 . https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2071397, ( 2013 ), we conducted two experiments to exa...

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Autor principal: Wilford, Miko M. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Wells, Gary L. ; Frazier, Annabelle
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
En: American journal of criminal justice
Año: 2021, Volumen: 46, Número: 3, Páginas: 554-575
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