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Sealing the fate of “The Kid”: A field note on the swirl of plea bargaining

Punishment & Society

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Abstract

Punishment & Society, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 239-263, April 2026.
The voluminous legal literature on plea bargaining in criminal court in the United States is largely devoid of empirical foundation and condemnation of the procedure typically rests on a priori moral judgments or juridical reasoning without clear purchase ...