Novel Justice: Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal by Carissa Hessick

Novel Justice is a book event series hosted by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. We invite authors to discuss recently published criminal justice books and to engage in Q&A with faculty and students. Carissa Hessick is the Ransdell Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she also serves as the director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project. Her book, Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal, a provocative and timely exploration of how plea bargaining prevents true criminal justice reform and how we can fix it. The book, out Oct. 12, can be pre-ordered here: https://bit.ly/CHessick. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Hessick about her work. Registration is required. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/Pleabargaining. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. For more information, contact Marlyn Dail at wcsj@law.duke.edu.