Kevin Cheng

The Timing of Guilty Pleas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This provocative book encourages readers to critically reflect on the reliance of the criminal process on early guilty pleas. This book is addressed to scholars, legal practitioners, policymakers and those interested in criminal justice, socio-legal studies and empirical legal research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781009158602
• ISBN-10: 1009158600
• Artikelnr.: 67077644

Autorenporträt

Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published widely about guilty pleas, plea bargaining, procedural justice and sentencing. He is co-author of The Hong Kong Legal System (second edition) (Cambridge, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the history of the problem of 'Cracked Trials'
2. The sliding scale of sentence discounts
3. Implicit (and explicit) plea bargaining
4. Revisiting the assumptions and methodology
5. Factors affecting the timing of guilty pleas
6. Trial and late-plea penalties
7. Consistency in applying sentence discounts
8. Public opinion and sentence discounts
9. Conclusion
Index.