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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2008
How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464363
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Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly white and high-income neighborhoods are substantially over-represented on juries. Using quasi-random variation in those called for jury duty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496126
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Do Sentencing Guidelines Raise the Cost of Punishment?
Meade, Jose - 1998
from substituting" fines for prison terms may raise the cost of imposing punishment. The objective of this paper is" to … Guidelines. We find evidence that the guidelines raise the cost of" punishment by nearly 5 percent of the total imprisonment cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472456
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Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation and Adult Crime : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness
Eren, Ozkan - 2017
This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of juvenile punishment on adult criminal recidivism and high school … to utilize information on the exact types of crimes committed, as well as the type and duration of punishment imposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455109
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Politics in the Courtroom : Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
Anwar, Shamena - 2015
This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457521
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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
We propose a test of bias based upon patterns of judicial errors. We model the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum of type I and II errors. We define racial bias a situation where the weight depends on defendant/victim race. If the court is unbiased, the error rate should be independent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461676
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Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion : Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
Bushway, Shawn D. - 2011
There is a debate about whether advisory non-binding sentencing guidelines affect the sentences outcomes of individuals convicted in jurisdictions with this sentencing framework. Identifying the impact of sentencing guidelines is a difficult empirical problem because court actors may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461696
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Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism : Understanding the Revolving Door
Humphries, John Eric; Ouss, Aurélie; Stavreva, Kamelia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual incarcerated, there are approximately three who are recently convicted but not sentenced to prison or jail. We develop an empirical framework for studying the consequences of noncarceral conviction by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056220
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Cash Bail and Trial Outcomes in an Early Twentieth-Century Southern Police Court
Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Studies of modern misdemeanor adjudication find that courts set bail higher than is required to reasonably assure that nonviolent defendants who pose no immediate threat to the community will appear for trial. Some defendants languish in jail for extended periods during which time they lose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056213
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Private Politics and Public Regulation
Egorov, Georgy - 2013
We develop a dynamic game to explore the interaction between regulation and private policies, such as self-regulation … by firms and activism. Without a public regulator, the possibility of self-regulation is bad for the firm, but good for … activists who are willing to maintain a costly boycott to raise the likelihood of self-regulation. Results are reversed when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458926