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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 voters in November 2014, the proposition redefined many less serious property and drug offenses that in the past could be charged as either a felony or misdemeanor to straight...

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‘It Must Be Rock Strong!’ : Guanxi's Impact on Judicial Decision-Making in China

He, Xin - 2017

Drawing upon data interviews with Chinese judges who were involved in the decision-making process, we develop two variables for analyzing the influence of social ties, or guanxi, in the judicial setting. The first differentiates the strength of guanxi – whether it is strong or weak. The second...

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Considering the EU Commission's Proposal on its Directive for Criminal Penalties for Violations of Restrictive Measures in the Context of a Comparative Analysis With US Sanctions E...

Nielsen, Jeff - 2022

The recent European Union (EU) proposal to harmonize criminal penalties for sanctions violations across its member states purports to be an ambitious initiative to create a consistent approach to sanctions enforcement across the Union. However, the proposal falls short of the reform needed to...

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The impact of fine size and uncertainty on punishment and deterrence : theory and evidence from the laboratory

Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015

of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when …

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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents

Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019

probability and the severity of punishment with reference to planned criminal activities. There are, however, also unplanned …

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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents

Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019

probability and the severity of punishment with reference to planned criminal activities. There are, however, also unplanned …

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Jury discrimination in criminal trials

Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2010

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random...

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Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions

Jordan, Andrew; Karger, Ezra; Neal, Derek A. - 2022

We examine 70,581 felony court cases filed in Chicago, IL, during the period 1990–2007. We exploit case randomization to assess the impact of judge assignment and sentencing decisions on the arrival of new charges. Our estimates of the impact of incarceration on recidivism show that, in...

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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon: The effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders

Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010

The most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two … purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared …

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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery

Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012

symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery, one may wonder which punishment strategy is more effective in curbing … design. The results show that, in both countries, with symmetric punishment recipients are less likely to grant the socially … undesirable favor, while bribers are more likely to report to the authorities with asymmetric punishment. In addition, when …

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