How Concepts of Black Criminality Affect Plea Bargaining

• In Event: Punitiveness, Race, Police Reform

Brief Overview

This paper models the plea-bargaining system with an emphasis on race. By operationalizing the way criminality is tied to race, this model shows how it affects the strategies and outcomes of a person of color in a plea-bargaining scenario.

Author

• Bianca Elizabeth DiGiovanni, University of Chicago