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Letters on capital punishments : addressed to the English judges
Wright, Richard - 1807
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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2008
How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...
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The Paradox of Punishment : Reflections on the Economics of Criminal Justice
Miceli, Thomas J. - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019
1. Prologue: The Paradox of Punishment -- 2. The Social Cost of Crime: Deterrence -- 3. Crime as Exchange: Retribution … a Village -- 8. The Limits of Punishment: Of Angels and Bad Men -- 9: Epilogue: What Have We Learned? … punishment. Finally, the book argues that, in addition to the threat of criminal sanctions, law inculcates principles of …
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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
We propose a test of bias based upon patterns of judicial errors. We model the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum of type I and II errors. We define racial bias a situation where the weight depends on defendant/victim race. If the court is unbiased, the error rate should be independent of...
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Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion : Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
Bushway, Shawn D. - 2011
There is a debate about whether advisory non-binding sentencing guidelines affect the sentences outcomes of individuals convicted in jurisdictions with this sentencing framework. Identifying the impact of sentencing guidelines is a difficult empirical problem because court actors may have...
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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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Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly white and high-income neighborhoods are substantially over-represented on juries. Using quasi-random variation in those called for jury duty...
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Are criminals strategic? : offender responses to drug sentencing cutoffs
Lepage, Louis Pierre - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 66 (2020)
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Unequal jury representation and its consequences
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534742