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7 pages in length. The purpose of Bjerk's (2007) article entitled Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defendant Guilt is Uncertain is to illustrate how a jury's beliefs and behavior "are determined endogenously in equilibrium along with defendant and prosecutor" (p. 1) and plea bargaining –- defined as "a direct negotiation between the prosecution and the defense to resolve 'one or more of the criminal charges against the defendant without trial'" (Alkon, 2010, p. 355) – serves to only somewhat mitigate "society's conflicting desires to maximize punishment of the guilty and minimize punishment of the falsely accused" (Bjerk, 2007, p. 1). Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. PLEA BARGAINING AND PUBLIC DESIRE TO PUNISH THE
GUILTY by , Ph.D. (c) October 2010 paper properly! The purpose of Bjerks (2007) article entitled Guilt
Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defendant Guilt is Uncertain is to illustrate how a jurys beliefs and behavior "are determined endogenously in equilibrium
along with defendant and prosecutor" (p. 1) and plea bargaining -- defined as "a direct negotiation between the prosecution and the defense to resolve one or more of the criminal
charges against the defendant without trial" (Alkon, 2010, p. 355) - serves to only somewhat mitigate "societys conflicting desires to maximize punishment of the guilty and minimize punishment of the
falsely accused" (Bjerk, 2007, p. 1). Specific attention is paid to the double-edged sword inherent to plea bargaining, inasmuch as it can be most advantageous for prosecutors to "induce
a large fraction of guilty defendants to voluntarily sort themselves from the innocent" (p. 1) but at the same time allows for shorter sentences for those who are truly guilty.
The prohibitive cost of a full-blown trial, along with the potential for the alleged perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks
to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, the taxpayers receive a break and the victim is vindicated all at the same time. Plea bargaining
- also called plea negotiating - is the offer of a lesser sentence in exchange for the alleged criminals guilty plea (Gaines & Miller, 2008). This deal between the
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