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Overview Commentary:
A Plea for Greater Reform and Engagement:
This article uses the introduction of China's plea leniency system, inspired by the US plea bargaining system, as a starting place for discussing the importance of 'engagement' between Chinese and foreign legal scholars more generally.
Open to negotiation? A review of China's Abridged Criminal Procedures
An overview of abridged procedure pilots in Chinese criminal cases, including how they are, and aren't like plea bargaining.
Plea Leniency Pilot Overview
A good overview of the plea leniency system in general, with a deep dive into specifics of local pilots.
Midterm Report on Plea Leniency Pilots. [CORRECTED]
Midterm Report on Plea Leniency Pilots. [CORRECTED]
A bargain at twice the speed:
A discussion of simplified procedures in Chinese criminal procedure.
【Translation Note:Throughout these translations we interchangeably use either the literal ‘admit guilt and accept punishment’ or ‘plea’ for the Chinese 认罪认罚从宽 is translated as leniency, so that the 认罪认罚从宽制度 is the ‘plea leniency system’ etc. This is solely to avoid excessively awkward language, as translations are awkward enough.]
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