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After noting some of the faults of plea bargaining, Schoenfeld stresses the considerable guilt that besets mankind; he details how confessions, particularly, may be related to this guilt and emphasizes the fact that implicit in every plea
bargain is a confession. The hypothesis is advanced that plea bargaining is proliferating because its helps significantly to lighten man's burden of guilt.