Confronting underground justice : reinventing plea bargaining for effective criminal justice reform
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Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018].
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Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018].
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Book
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xiii, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Plea negotiation is rife with due process concerns, including a heightened risk of coerced pleas, ignoring mens rea, serious questions about assistance of counsel, limited discovery and little litigation of the evidence, the conviction of innocent defendants and significant questions about fairness and equity. Plea negotiation is also the fast track to criminal conviction, tough punishment, and mass incarceration. From the perspective of public policy, plea negotiation perpetuates a harm based, retribution focused system of crime and punishment. Because of the failures of public health, the justice system has become a dumping ground for hundreds of thousands of mentally ill, substance addicted and abusing, and neurocognitively impaired offenders. And because of a tough on crime mentality and lack of information and options, the justice system routinely prosecutes and punishes these offenders. The evidence is quite clear that punishment does nothing to improve these circumstances and often exacerbates them. The result, as one would predict, is extraordinarily high rates of reoffending, propelling the revolving door of the justice system. [This book] takes a close look at plea negotiation, criminal prosecution, public defense, and pretrial justice systems and identifies a wide variety of problems and concerns with each. [The authors] provide key decision makers with the tools to make better, more informed decisions regarding pre-trial detention, prosecution and plea deals, criminal defense, and diversion to treatment. Critical to this effort is redefining roles, responsibilities and the culture of criminal justice by prosecutors, judges and defense counsel accepting responsibility for reducing recidivism and embracing problem solving as a primary decision making strategy."--,Back cover.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kelly, W. R. 1., & Pitman, R. (2018). Confronting underground justice: reinventing plea bargaining for effective criminal justice reform . Rowman & Littlefield.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kelly, W. R. 1950- and Robert Pitman. 2018. Confronting Underground Justice: Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform. Rowman & Littlefield.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kelly, W. R. 1950- and Robert Pitman. Confronting Underground Justice: Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kelly, W. R. 1950-, and Robert Pitman. Confronting Underground Justice: Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

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