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title: Do you take the deal? What we know and don’t know about guilty pleas - CONCEPT Professional Training
description: As guilty pleas are on the rise worldwide, we need to invest more effort into understanding what drives this phenomenon. This is the bottom line of a recently published article in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
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# [Do you take the deal? What we know and don’t know about guilty pleas - CONCEPT Professional Training](https://paloaltou.edu/resources/translating-research-into-practice-blog/take-deal-know-dont-know-guilty-pleas/)

 Written by [Kenny Gonzalez](https://paloaltou.edu/resources/translating-research-into-practice-blog/author/kenny-gonzalez) | Dec 30, 2017 6:06:00 AM

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