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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of plea bargaining. Address the following in your paper:
- Define plea bargaining.
- Distinguish between charge bargaining and sentence bargaining.
- Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of plea bargaining.
- Describe how plea bargaining reflects or thwarts the crime control and due process models of criminal justice.
Include at least two (2) references to support the information in your paper.
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Running head: PLEA BARGAINING
Plea Bargaining
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PLEA BARGAINING
Introduction
Arguments around plea bargaining exist and they revolve around whether it is a good
idea or not. Some countries do not allow this aspect of the deal, since they consider it immoral
and unethical. However, in the United States, plea bargaining accounts to 90 percent of all
criminal cases. Critics of this element believe that the practice coerces defendants to give their
right to trial resulting in irrational sentences. Hence, they argue that the practice should be
abolished due to failure to meet basic criteria.
Defining plea bargaining
Plea bargains are an agreement between the defendant and the prosecutor in a criminal
case where the defendant often pleads of guilty him/her to receive a lesser sentence or offense. In
other words, plea bargains are a form of establishing an agreement between the strengths and
weaknesses of a case but does not necessarily reflect a traditional sense of justice (Alschuler,
2005). Courts usually allow the respective parties involved in a case to work out a solution by
themselves without forgetting who the plea bargain serves best.
Plea bargains are used in cases where courts are overcrowded to avoid being
overwhelmed which can...
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