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Plea Bargaining and Plea Negotiation in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1979

John Baldwin  and
Michael McConville
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Abstract

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In this paper, some recent findings about the nature of plea negotiation in the Birmingham Crown Court in England are discussed. These findings, to which the legal profession in England reacted with hostility, raise doubts about traditionally accepted assumptions concerning the role of plea bargaining in English criminal justice.

Type
Comparative Perspectives
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Law & Society Review , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Winter 1979 , pp. 287 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 Law and Society Association.

Footnotes

The authors are indebted to the Home Office, which generously funded the research that underlies this paper. The views expressed are those of the authors alone and should not be attributed to the Home Office.

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