“Deal” in German criminal procedure

This article is a translation from German of the original and crucial material published by the doctor of law, professor Thomas Rönnau in the journal JuS in 2018 (Thomas Rönnau. Grundwissen — Strafprozessrecht: Verständigung im Strafverfahren // JuS. 2018. № 2. S. 114-118). The article written by prof. T. Rönnau is devoted to the analysis of the institution of agreement in German criminal procedure (admission of guilt). On the one hand, the criminal justice system at the present stage faces a real need to use a simplified form of criminal proceedings, which allows us to solve the problem of procedural economy. On the other hand, the number of cases resolved in a special (simplified) order in the past few years has become so large so such the cases instead to be "special" passes into the category of ordinary (not special). Today, "Deal" justice in criminal cases is characteristic of the criminal process of many foreign countries, including Germany. Translation of the article by Prof. T. Rönnau will allow the readers to see theoretical and practical problems faced by the German legal doctrine and a practitioner in connection with the institution of agreement (admission of guilt) in criminal procedure. Prof. T. Rönnau offers a solution to the problems he outlined.