«Julian Roberts and Jesper Ryberg have assembled an estimable group of scholars whose contributions address a range of issues related to the submission of guilty pleas (or in some legal regimes, admissions of guilt) by individuals charged with crimes. As the essays in this valuable collection reveal, sentencing the ‘self-convicted’ is controversial in ways that reveal deeper fault lines among penal and criminal procedure theorists.»

Richard L. Lippke, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books