Summaries

PBI works to make academic research and case law related to plea bargaining more accessible to policymakers, advocacy organizations, practitioners, and academics across various disciplines.

This is achieved through our summaries, which provide readers key information about important academic research and case law in the field. These summaries are located in this searchable database, allowing the user to identify the materials most important to their work.

Scope: Currently, the below summaries database contains a curated collection of 59 significant U.S. Supreme Court cases involving plea bargaining from 1970 through 2020. The database also contains a curated collection of 130 significant academic articles regarding plea bargaining from 1979 through 2020, along with some organizational plea bargaining reports. Further summaries of research and caselaw will be added on a rolling bases and noted herein. A large collection of organizational research reports and links to the full materials can be found on the PBI website’s Reports page.

Note: Please note that this database and website do not include exhaustive collections of all caselaw, research, and reports related to plea bargaining. Rather, this database and website contain curated collections of materials selected at the discretion of the PBI and consistent with its mission to make plea bargaining resources and information more accessible to academics, practitioners, policymakers, and advocacy groups.

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