Using administrative criminal records from Texas, this paper shows how heat affects criminal defendants, police officers, prosecutors, and judges. It finds that arrests increase by up to 15 percent on hot days, driven by increases in violent crime. There is no evidence that charging-day heat...

Since 1947, no alleged crime of aggression has ever been prosecuted, in spite of the many instances in which states have committed acts of aggression with the Security Council sometimes deeming an act to be such. A dual system of international criminal justice has taken shape slowly. Crimes...

The prison time actually served by a convicted criminal depends to a significant degree on decisions made by the state during the course of imprisonment — on whether to grant parole or other forms of sentence reduction. In this article we study a model of the adjustment of sentences assuming...

We present the attempt of finding association between crime level and prison population across European countries. We propose observation that Central and Eastern European countries distinctly differ from the rest of Europe. Building on this we offer justification that is methodologically based...