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Correcting racial injustice : forensic DNA technology and the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted
D'Este, Rocco; Yuchtman, Noam - 2023
We study the effects of laws streamlining access to post-conviction forensic DNA technology ("DNA laws"). We present a conceptual framework in which DNA laws' effects differ by race due to unequal access to non-DNA exoneration technologies. Consistent with the framework's predictions, we find...
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Misdemeanor prosecution
Agan, Amanda; Doleac, Jennifer L.; Harvey, Anna - 2021
likelihood of future criminal justice involvement fell, with no apparent increase in local crime rates. …
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Judge peer effects in the courthouse
Eren, Ozkan; Mocan, Naci - 2020
Although there exists a large literature analyzing whether an individual's peers have an impact on that individual's own behavior and subsequent outcomes, there is paucity of research on whether peers influence a person's decisions and judgments regarding a third party. We investigate whether...
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Terrorism, immigration and asylum approval
Brodeur, Abel; Wright, Taylor - 2019
Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
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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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The #MeToo movement and judges' gender gap in decisions
Cai, Xiqian; Chen, Shuai; Cheng, Zhengquan - 2024
Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually decreasing. This study examines the effect of the #MeToo movement on judges’ gender gap in their vital labor market outcome - judicial decisions on randomly assigned legal...
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Assimilation, criminality and ethnic conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014
, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social …
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In-group favoritism and peer effects in wrongful acquittals : NBA referees as judges
Mocan, Naci; Osborne-Christenson, Eric - 2022
We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in foul calls made by referees. Similarly, there is no racial bias or in-group bias in Type-I errors...
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Using a ratio test to estimate racial differences in wrongful conviction rates
Bjerk, David; Helland, Eric - 2017
DNA exoneration rates across races among defendants convicted for the same crime in the same state provides an upper bound …
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What can DNA exonerations tell us about racial differences in wrongful conviction rates?
Bjerk, David; Helland, Eric - 2018
We examine the extent to which DNA exonerations can reveal whether wrongful conviction rates differ across races. We show that under a wide-range of assumptions regarding possible explicit or implicit racial biases in the DNA exoneration process (including no bias), our results suggest the...
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