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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 […]
Bailing on Justice: Plea Bargain Sentencing Outcomes
by Esmé Lise Mailloux Govan Abstract In 2020, over 630,000 American adults were detained in local jails each day, 74% of whom had not yet been convicted of a crime. These defendants were detained before going to court because they did not make bail. There is a large body of work documenting the negative impacts […]
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