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Citation

Euvrard E, Leclerc C. Punishm. Soc. 2017; 19(5): 525-542.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1462474516670153

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines why accused persons in pre-trial detention decide to plead guilty. Relying on the understanding of coercion proposed by Brunk, the article go beyond his analysis to show how pre-trial detention can exert pressure on an accused individual, who then feels coerced into pleading guilty. Interviews with 12 accused and 12 lawyers showed that in certain situations pre-trial detention can be a source of coercion, particularly if there are lengthy procedural delays and eventual sentences can be expected to be fairly short. However, there are other situations in which custodial remand acts as an inducement rather than as coercion or does not exert any pressure on the accused.


Language: en

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