Paolini, Gabriele; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; … - 2023
Over the last three decades, plea bargaining procedures have been adopted by a large number of jurisdictions worldwide … jurisdictions, finding that 101 of them have a formalized plea-bargaining procedure. For 52 jurisdictions, we also compute a plea-bargaining … rate, defined as the percentage of convictions imposed through plea bargaining over all criminal convictions imposed. By …