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Intervention time series analysis of crime rates : the impact of sentence reforms in Virginia
Sridharan, Sanjeev; Vujic, Sunčica; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2003
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Acquisitive crime, sentencing and detection : an analysis of England and Wales
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Bhattacharya, Samrat; Koli, … - 2012
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Do jurors and professional judges differ in their treatment of crime? : evidence from French reform
Philippe, Arnaud - 2017
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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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Unequal jury representation and its consequences
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2021
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The persistence of the criminal justice gender gap : evidence from 200 Years of judicial decisions
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2019 - This version: October 16, 2019
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Chapter 25. Economic Analysis of Law
Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 3, (pp. 1661-1784). 2002
This is a survey of economic analysis of law, that is, of the emerging field under which the standard tools of microeconomics are employed to identify the effects of legal rules and their social desirability. Five basic subject areas are covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we...
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