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Who Minds Their Pleas and Queues? Quick and Slow Misdemeanor Pleas Pose Similar Risk of Incarceration

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Abstract

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Volume 53, Issue 6, Page 856-875, June 2026.
Millions of people in the United States are convicted of misdemeanor crimes annually, yet we know little about the processes generating these convictions. The current research used 87,248 misdemeanor cases from an urban Florida county to examine ...