Asher Flynn is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Social and Political Graduate Research Program at Monash University, a Go8 institution. Asher has published widely on plea negotiations, image-based sexual abuse, sexual violence and access to justice. Asher is CI on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project and recently completed two Australian Criminology Research Council-funded projects. Arie Freiberg is an Emeritus Professor at Monash University. He was Dean of the Faculty Law at Monash University between 2004 and 2012. Before this, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2003. He is the Chair of the Victorian and Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Councils. His particular areas of expertise are sentencing, non-adversarial justice and regulation and has over 150 publications in these fields.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Plea Negotiations in Context.- 3. Defining Plea Negotiations.- 4. Other Forms of Negotiations.- 5. The Negotiation Process.- 6. Negotiation Outcomes.- 7. Plea Negotiations and Sentencing.- 8.n Pragmatic Justice: At Any Cost?.- 9. Building Trust and Confidence in the Criminal Justice System.- 10. Concluding Comments.

Asher Flynn is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Social and Political Graduate Research Program at Monash University, a Go8 institution. Asher has published widely on plea negotiations, image-based sexual abuse, sexual violence and access to justice. Asher is CI on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project and recently completed two Australian Criminology Research Council-funded projects. Arie Freiberg is an Emeritus Professor at Monash University. He was Dean of the Faculty Law at Monash University between 2004 and 2012. Before this, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2003. He is the Chair of the Victorian and Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Councils. His particular areas of expertise are sentencing, non-adversarial justice and regulation and has over 150 publications in these fields.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Plea Negotiations in Context.- 3. Defining Plea Negotiations.- 4. Other Forms of Negotiations.- 5. The Negotiation Process.- 6. Negotiation Outcomes.- 7. Plea Negotiations and Sentencing.- 8.n Pragmatic Justice: At Any Cost?.- 9. Building Trust and Confidence in the Criminal Justice System.- 10. Concluding Comments.