Grodensky Seeks to Shed Light on Plea Bargains
Plea bargains account for 90-95% of all criminal dispositions, and yet they are a mostly unstudied area of criminal justice. For the past year, Ph.D. student Catherine Grodensky has been part of an effort to help address this issue.
Plea bargains account for 90-95% of all criminal dispositions, and yet they are a mostly unstudied area of criminal justice. For the past year, Ph.D. student Catherine Grodensky has been part of an effort to help address this issue.
Through a partnership between Duke Law School’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice and the Durham County District Attorney’s office, Grodensky and a team of researchers have been working to develop an online plea tracker.
