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The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

Anwar, Shamena - 2010

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random variation in the...

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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...

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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....

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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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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

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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Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice : Evidence from Southern State Courts

Feigenberg, Benjamin - 2018

The US criminal justice system is exceptionally punitive. We test whether racial heterogeneity is one cause, exploiting cross-jurisdiction variation in punishment in four Southern states. We estimate the causal effect of jurisdiction on arrest charge outcome, validating our estimates using a...

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The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes

Anwar, Shamena - 2012

This paper uses data from 700+ felony trials in Sarasota and Lake Counties in Florida from 2000-2010 to examine the role of age in jury selection and trial outcomes. The results imply that prosecutors are more likely to use their peremptory challenges to exclude younger members of the jury pool,...

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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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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...

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Quality of Judicial Institutions, Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Dishonesty

Mocan, Naci H. - 2018

We investigate the extent to which perceived 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...

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