RT Article
T1 The Plea Discount and the Time Penalty in Canada: impacts of the Guilty Plea at Sentencing
JF Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
VO 65
IS 2
SP 1
OP 36
A1 Johnson, Brendyn
A1 Leclerc, Chloé
A2 Leclerc, Chloé
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1869103505
AB The plea discount (or trial penalty) refers to disparity in sentencing resulting from the decision to plead guilty or proceed to trial. It is often suggested that pleading guilty reduces one’s odds of being imprisoned or reduces the length of one’s sentence. While plea discounts haves been studied extensively in the United States, there is very little indication in Canada as to their existence or scope. Using data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (N = 2,198,954), this study analyzes logit-negative binomial hurdle models to study the plea discount in Canadian criminal courts and how it varies by court resource usage. It finds that the probability of being incarcerated is nominally higher after pleading guilty, but that pleading guilty reduces custodial sentence length. Further, it finds that the amount of resources used to resolve a case moderates the impact of a guilty plea in both situations.
K1 court resources
K1 Courts
K1 détermination de la peine
K1 efficience
K1 Efficiency
K1 plea discount
K1 pénalité de procès
K1 ressources judiciaires
K1 Sentencing
K1 transaction en matière pénale
K1 trial penalty
K1 tribunaux
DO 10.3138/cjccj.2022-0036