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

‘This is a timely, comprehensive and innovative collection of contributions that brings together scholarship from multiple jurisdictions and disciplinary perspectives. A real “must-read” for anyone interested in the contemporary debates about plea bargaining.’

• Contents:Series editors’ preface xviPreface and acknowledgements xviii1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining andCriminal Justice 1Máximo Langer, Mike McConville and Luke MarshPART I HISTORICAL FRAMING AND DISPERSION2 The diffusion of plea bargaining and the global administratisation ofcriminal convictions 10Máximo Langer3 Plea bargaining in the United States 36Stephen C. Thaman4 A portrait of guilt from England and Wales: defending againststate-induced pleas 58Luke Marsh5 Plea bargaining in Hong Kong: a question of definition 76Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng6 Plea Bargaining in Latin America 88Máximo Langer and Máximo Sozzo7 The increasing reach of negotiated justice in Nordic countries 144Patrick S. Günsberg8 The evolving approach to plea bargaining in Ethiopia 156Kassahun Molla Yilma9 Balancing public interest, judicial discretion, the rights of an accusedperson and victims’ rights in plea bargaining: the case of Kenya andSouth Africa 171Evelyne Owiye AsaalaPART II ABBREVIATED PROCEDURES/ PLEA BARGAINING ANALOGUES10 Leniency for pleading guilty and acceptance of punishment: anoverriding principle of Chinese criminal justice 186Yu Mou11 A socio-legal analysis of the impact of the ECtHR caselaw on thedevelopment of an abbreviated trial system in Hungary 200Samantha Joy Cheesman12 Plea bargaining in India 215Mrinal Satish13 Negotiated criminal justice in the Islamic law of modern Muslim states:the rise of the political plea bargain 230Salim Farrar14 Deferred prosecutions and justice: a whodunnit? 244Axel Palmer and Nicholas RyderPART III UNDERLYING STRUCTURAL/ THEORETICAL ISSUES15 Guilty pleas, sentencing and sentence ‘discounting’: who is ‘sentencediscounting’ really for? 263Jay Gormley and Cyrus Tata16 Plea bargaining and the risk of wrongful convictions: a comparative overview 277Mauricio Duce17 Racial and gender disparities in plea bargaining 297Carlos Berdejó18 Defenses for plea bargaining 312Michael ConklinPART IV IMPLICATIONS FOR TRIAL PROCESSES, LEGALEDUCATION/TRAINING AND THE VIRTUAL WORLD19 The tentacles of state case management: ‘co-operative’ lawyering and‘efficient’ disclosure in the context of plea determination 330Ed Johnston20 Bargaining the rules of evidence 348Matt Thomason21 Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment 363Vicky Kemp and Cerys Gibson22 Plea bargaining in the virtual courtroom 379Thea Johnson23 Women and victims: neglected voices in plea negotiations 391Monique Moffa, Arie Freiberg and Asher Flynn24 Methodological and analytical strategies in guilty plea research:combatting myths and informing evidence-based procedure 408Rebecca K. Helm and Bethany Growns25 Criminological approaches to plea bargaining 423Brian D. Johnson and Sean HoulihanPART V LOOKING FORWARD: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCHQUESTIONS, METHODS AND PROSPECTS26 The long history of plea bargaining 439Malcolm M. Feeley and Rosann Greenspan27 English plea bargaining in context: a revisionist history of judicial politics 471Mike McConville28 Plea bargaining: a misreading of the common law in modernity 493Mary E. Vogel29 Quo vadis, negotiated justice? A success story or a coercion model? 535Lorena Bachmaier Winter30 Plea bargaining as second-best criminal adjudication and the future ofcriminal procedure thought in global perspective 550Máximo Langer31 Final thoughts: signposting the future 573Máximo Langer, Mike McConville and Luke Marsh