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Criminal Procedure

Selected Works

2010

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Fairness And The Willingness To Accept Plea Bargain Offers, Oren Gazal-Ayal, Avishalom Tor, Stephen M. Garcia Jun 2010

Fairness And The Willingness To Accept Plea Bargain Offers, Oren Gazal-Ayal, Avishalom Tor, Stephen M. Garcia

Oren Gazal-Ayal

In contrast with the typical assumption in plea bargaining law and economics, we show defendants may reject plea offers based on fairness considerations. Specifically, offers where the sanction clearly appears excessive for the crime ("substantively unfair") and offers that appear inferior to those received by others in similar cases ("comparatively unfair") diminish defendants' wiliingness to accept plea offers (WTAP). Part 1 analyzes real-world data in Study 1 and reviews early experiments, all of which sugget substantive fairness impacts WTAP but do not control for important confounds. Part 2 therefore presents Studies 2-4 that confirm the independent impact of substantive fairness. …

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The Susceptibility Of Juveniles To False Confessions And False Guilty Pleas, Allison D. Redlich Jan 2010

The Susceptibility Of Juveniles To False Confessions And False Guilty Pleas, Allison D. Redlich

Allison D Redlich

No abstract provided.

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Self-Reported False Confessions And False Guilty Pleas Among Offenders With Mental Illness, Allison D. Redlich, Alicia Summers, Steven Hoover Jan 2010

Self-Reported False Confessions And False Guilty Pleas Among Offenders With Mental Illness, Allison D. Redlich, Alicia Summers, Steven Hoover

Allison D Redlich

No abstract provided.

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Enrollment In Mental Health Courts: Voluntariness, Knowingness, And Adjudicative Competence, Allison D. Redlich, Steven Hoover, Alicia Summers, Henry J. Steadman Jan 2010

Enrollment In Mental Health Courts: Voluntariness, Knowingness, And Adjudicative Competence, Allison D. Redlich, Steven Hoover, Alicia Summers, Henry J. Steadman

Allison D Redlich

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False Confessions, False Guilty Pleas: Similiarities And Differences, Allison D. Redlich Jan 2010

False Confessions, False Guilty Pleas: Similiarities And Differences, Allison D. Redlich

Allison D Redlich

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