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The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials
Anwar, Shamena - 2010
Florida between 2000 and 2010. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the <i …
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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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The Long Run Impacts of Court-Ordered Desegregation
Anstreicher, Garrett; Fletcher, Jason; Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Court ordered desegregation plans were implemented in hundreds of US school districts nationwide from the 1960s through the 1980s, and were arguably the most substantive national attempt to improve educational access for African American children in modern American history. Using large Census...
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Racial Bias and In-group Bias in Judicial Decisions : Evidence from Virtual Reality Courtrooms
Bielen, Samantha - 2018
We shot videos of criminal trials using 3D Virtual Reality (VR) technology, prosecuted by actual prosecutors and defended by actual defense attorneys in an actual courtroom. This is the first paper that utilizes VR technology in a non-computer animated setting, which allows us to replace white...
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From Brown to Busing
Cascio, Elizabeth - 2007
An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465372
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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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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...
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Misdemeanor Prosecution
Agan, Amanda Y.; Doleac, Jennifer L.; Harvey, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
likelihood of future criminal justice involvement fell, with no apparent increase in local crime rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496154
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Quality of Judicial Institutions, Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Dishonesty
Mocan, Naci H. - 2018
We investigate the extent to which the quality of judicial institutions has an impact on individuals' propensity for criminal and dishonest behavior and on their views regarding the acceptability of dishonesty and law-breaking. We use micro data on residents of 25 European countries and employ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453318
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Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation and Adult Crime : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness
Eren, Ozkan - 2017
completion. We link the universe of case files of those who were convicted of a crime as a juvenile between 1996 and 2012 in a … in imprisonment to estimate the causal effect of incarceration on adult crime and on high school completion … no impact on future violent crime, but it lowers the propensity to commit property crime. Juvenile incarceration …
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