PLEA BARGAINING AND PUBLIC DESIRE TO PUNISH THE GUILTY
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7
ABSTRACT:
7 pages in length. The purpose of Bjerk's (2007) article entitled Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defendant Guilt is Uncertain is to illustrate how a jury's beliefs and behavior "are determined endogenously in equilibrium along with defendant and prosecutor" (p. 1) and plea bargaining –- defined as "a direct negotiation between the prosecution and the defense to resolve 'one or more of the criminal charges against the defendant without trial'" (Alkon, 2010, p. 355) – serves to only somewhat mitigate "society's conflicting desires to maximize punishment of the guilty and minimize punishment of the falsely accused" (Bjerk, 2007, p. 1). Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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