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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? : disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250081
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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? : disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023 - This version: March 31, 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252023
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Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296815
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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374569
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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
Anwar, Shamena Anwar; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 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/10011272733
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The impact of the first professional police forces on crime
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2021 - This version: January 07, 2021
police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418183
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The impact of the first professional police forces on crime
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2019 - This version: October 9, 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012435465
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The impact of the first professional police forces on crime
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208601
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The impact of the first professional police forces on crime
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200358
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The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2021
police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420375