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Plea bargaining as a corruption of justice
Claim
Charge reduction via plea bargaining has become an underhanded way way of keeping criminals out of prison while pretending to punish them. Yet non-punishment is claimed to be a major social cause of crime.
Broader
Unethical practices in the legal system
Reduces
Delay in administration of justice
Aggravates
Excessive leniency in sentencing of offenders
Aggravated by
Commercialization of justice
Strategy(ies)
Corrupting justice
Value(s)
Justice
Corruption
Injustice
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems