Plea Bargaining Beyond Common Law: Evidence from China
by Jince Chen, Abstract This paper provides a causal evaluation of China’s plea-leniency reform, a prosecutor-led negotiated criminal procedure piloted in 18 cities from 2016 to 2018 before its nationwide adoption. In common law systems, plea bargaining is found to generate sentence discounts and efficiency gains; in civil law jurisdictions, where bargaining is more constrained […]
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