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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law. Today, one out of every three adults in this country has a criminal or arrest history of some kind.