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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure
Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015
Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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Criminal Injustice : A Cost Analysis of Wrongful Convictions, Errors, and Failed Prosecutions in California's Criminal Justice System
Silbert, Rebecca; Hollway, John; Larizadeh, Darya - 2016
prior to trial, grouped by type of crime …
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Minority salience and criminal justice decisions
Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Ketel, Nadine; Marie, Olivier - 2024
Moroccan descent convicted of a crime increased by 79% after the shock. Heterogeneity analyses indicate that more …
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White-Collar Plea Bargaining and Sentencing after Booker
Bibas, Stephanos - 2009
This symposium essay speculates about how Booker's loosening of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines is likely to affect white-collar plea bargaining and sentencing. Prosecutors' punishment intuitions and the strong white-collar defense bar will keep white-collar sentencing from growing as harsh as...
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Plea Bargaining as a Mean to Maximum Sentence
Kim, Jungwook - 2016
This paper outlines the findings of a model of plea bargaining with multiple defendants, in which a prosecutor makes plea offer sequentially. It is shown that plea discount can be minimized with sequential offers and that not all of defendants shall be induced to plead guilty. By allowing...
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Plea bargaining in South Africa : an economic perspective
Adelstein, Richard P. - 2018
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On the design of criminal trials : the benefits of a three-verdict system
Siegel, Ron; Strulovici, Bruno - 2015 - Preliminary and incomplete
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Plea Bargaining a Medicine in Indian Criminal Jurisprudence to Reduce a Backlog of The Indian Courts : An Overview
Choudhary, Vaibhav - 2011
A fresh chapter, that is chapter XXIA on ‘Plea Bargaining', has been introduced in the Criminal Procedure Code. It was introduced through the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2005, which was passed by the parliament. This has certainly changed the look of the Indian Criminal Justice System. Some...
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The effect of sentencing reform on crime rates : evidence from California's proposition 47
Domínguez, Patricio; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2019
We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the …-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little … evidence of an impact on violent crime rates in the state. Once changes in offense definitions and reporting practices in key …
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Book Review : Forensic Identification and Criminal Justice: Forensic Science, Justice and Risk, by Carole McCartney
Roth, Andrea L.; Ungvarsky, Edward J. - 2014
Judging only by its table of contents, Carole McCartney's latest book might appear merely a straightforward catalogue of cases and literature discussing the uses of forensic fingerprint and DNA identification technology in the criminal justice context. Upon closer examination, however, the...
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