Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 8,350
Cover Image
Criminal Injustice : A Cost Analysis of Wrongful Convictions, Errors, and Failed Prosecutions in California's Criminal Justice System
Silbert, Rebecca; Hollway, John; Larizadeh, Darya - 2016
prior to trial, grouped by type of crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128900
Cover Image
Are criminals strategic? : offender responses to drug sentencing cutoffs
Lepage, Louis Pierre - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 66 (2020)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520612
Cover Image
Post-Conviction Remedies in the Italian Criminal Justice System
Lupária Donati, Luca; Pittiruti, Marco - 2021
The Italian Constitution expressly contemplates the possibility of a wrongful conviction, by stating that the law shall determine the conditions and forms regulating damages in case of judicial error. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that many provisions of the Italian Code of Criminal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229573
Cover Image
Gender disparities in criminal justice
Philippe, Arnaud - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221427
Cover Image
The effect of sentencing reform on racial and ethnic disparities in involvement with the criminal justice system : the case of California's proposition 47
Lofstrom, Magnus; Martin, Brandon; Raphael, Steven - 2019
approximate 20 percent decline in total property crime arrests, and shifts in the composition of arrests away from felonies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130020
Cover Image
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493796
Cover Image
Judicial Errors, Crime Deterrence and Appeals : Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts
Sarel, Roee - 2018
This paper investigates how different outcomes of criminal appeals impact crime deterrence. My panel data analysis … (1997-2013) indicates that crime rates decrease when convictions are affirmed by the appellate court, as long as conviction … rates are not too high. Crime rates are further found to decrease when convictions are reversed but increase when cases are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936439
Cover Image
Sex is Not a Sport : Consent and Violence in Criminal Law
Hanna, Cheryl - 2009
Does consent excuse violence against another? Generally, it does not. Recently, however, criminal defendants charged with violence against their sexual partners have asked courts to treat violent sex or sadomasochism (S/M) as a sport, like prize fighting and hockey. While most courts have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214196
Cover Image
The impact of fiscal limitation on California's criminal justice system
Chaiken, Jan M. (contributor) - 1981
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000012411
Cover Image
Blinding Prosecutors to Defendants’ Race : A Policy Proposal to Reduce Unconscious Bias in the Criminal Justice System
Sah, Sunita; Robertson, Christopher T.; Baughman, Shima … - 2022
Racial minorities are disproportionately imprisoned in the United States. This disparity is unlikely to be due solely to differences in criminal behavior. Behavioral science research has documented that prosecutors harbor unconscious racial biases. These unconscious biases play a role whenever...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131526