Prof. Luke MARSH and Prof. Mike McCONVILLE have published a book, Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice (Edward Elgar, 2024).

About the book: This book provides an authoritative account of legal innovations designed to address guilty pleas in the criminal process including trial-avoidance mechanisms and abbreviated trial procedures. Comprising 31 Chapters, the Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice brings together established and emerging scholars from around the world to examine the histories of plea bargaining, its spread through the common law world and its rapidly increasing intrusion into inquisitorial settings. Throughout, plea bargaining’s impact upon and interaction with existing authority and institutional structures – including policymakers, the judiciary and other courtroom actors, systems of criminal law, procedure and evidence – as well as those directly affected such as victims and defendants, is interrogated utilising a variety of methodologies and conceptualizations drawn not only from conventional legal frames but also from criminology, psychology, political science and sociology.

This cutting-edge research volume (published by Edward Elgar as part of a new series on Criminal Law and Justice) was co-edited with Máximo Langer, the David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

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