Jon'a F. Meyer
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University. Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment (2002) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
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Plea bargaining, in law, the practice of negotiating an agreement between the prosecution and the defense whereby the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense or (in the case of multiple offenses) to one or more of the offenses charged in exchange for more lenient sentencing, recommendations, a…
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