While much legal research has examined the problem of court delays and backlogs, the link between the prosecutor' s incentives to press charges and their subsequent effect on the congestion in the criminal justice system has remained largely overlooked. To understand the implications of such...

The Condorcet Jury Theorem is derived from the implicit assumption that jury members only commit one type of error. If the probability of this error is smaller than 0.5, then group decisions are better than those of individual members. In binary decision situations, however, two types of error...