_______________ are a comprehensive tool, especially since it would cost our society so much to prosecute and allow a trial for every individual that committed a crime.
The mechanism by which a convicted criminal as well as lawyer arrive at a mutually agreeable conclusion of such a criminal proceeding needs to be approved by the judge.
It is indeed a deal during which the offender seeks to make a reduced case guilty verdict and indeed the complainant offers to dismiss an even more severe punishment.