Plea bargaining in the United States, 1978

Herbert S. Miller, William F. McDonald, James A. Cramer, Georgetown University. Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This study was conducted at the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Georgetown University Law Center. The study consists of three files. The first contains information from case files in six United States cities. The variables include demographic information on the accused and the victim, past record of the accused, seriousness of the offense, pleas entered, speed of trial process, and sentencing. The second file contains information gathered from in-court observations focused on the formal supervision of plea bargaining by judges. The third file consists of the results of a plea bargaining simulation game.