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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. Plea bargaining coincided with overt classism in the legal system.