1.
Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases
University of Michigan Law and Economics Research Paper, No. 12-018
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 10 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School
Downloads
18,658
2.
Race, the War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction
Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 6. p. 253, 2002
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 06 May 2003
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Davis - School of Law
Downloads
6,331
3.
Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Charging and Its Sentencing Consequences
U of Michigan Law & Econ, Empirical Legal Studies Center Paper No. 12-002
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 16 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2012
Working Paper Series
University of British Columbia and University of Michigan Law School
Downloads
5,854
4.
Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 13 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 11 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business
Downloads
5,347
5.
Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs
U Chicago Law & Econ, Olin Working Paper No. 239; AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. 05-06; U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 85
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 25 Mar 2005
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
5,198
6.
Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?
Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2012), pp. 347-383, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-07
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 02 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 28 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Downloads
4,588
7.
Why Prison?: An Economic Critique
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 2017, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 07 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
4,332
8.
Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment
U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-012
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 15 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
Rutgers University, Department of Economics and University of Michigan Law School
Downloads
4,221
9.
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow
NYU Law Review, April 2012, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 243
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 29 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
3,880
10.
Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Post-Moratorium Panel Data
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 24 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 24 Oct 2007
Working Paper Series
Emory University - Department of Economics, Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Post-Moratorium Panel Data
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 24 Oct 2007
Downloads
3,799
Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Post-Moratorium Panel Data
American Law and Economics Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 05 May 2003
Downloads
3,799
11.
Risk, Race, & Recidivism: Predictive Bias and Disparate Impact
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 08 Nov 2015
Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley and Government of the United States of America - Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Downloads
3,389
12.
Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed
Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 5, 2009, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 10-09
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 04 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Neuroscience Program, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
Downloads
3,121
13.
Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Some Further Thoughts and Additional Evidence
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 741-88, August 1977
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 07 Feb 2007
Accepted Paper Series
State University of New York at Buffalo - Department of Economics
Downloads
3,037
14.
Evidence-Based Sentencing and the Scientific Rationalization of Discrimination
Stanford Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-014
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 01 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School
Downloads
2,698
15.
Chivalry is Not Dead: Murder, Gender, and the Death Penalty
Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-08, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 23 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 15 Feb 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of San Francisco - School of Law and Zalkind Duncan and Bernstein LLP
Downloads
2,638
16.
The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty
Fordham Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 49-128, 2007, Fordham Legal Studies Research Paper No. 983732
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 01 May 2007
Last Revised: 27 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads
2,517
17.
'Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker': American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 'Birth of Biopolitics' Lectures
University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 614, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 401
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 05 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 01 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and Columbia University
Downloads
2,474
18.
'Frightening and High': The Supreme Court’s Crucial Mistake About Sex Crime Statistics
Published at 30 Constitutional Commentary 495 (2015)
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 09 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 18 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Arizona State University College of Law and Independent
Downloads
2,281
19.
The Innocent Defendant’s Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining’s Innocence Problem
103 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1, 2013
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 31 May 2012
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Belmont University School of Law and Florida Institute of Technology
Downloads
2,263
20.
Sorting Guilty Minds
New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, 2011
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 24 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 05 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Harvard University - Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
Downloads
2,226
21.
Law and Neuroscience in the United States
INTERNATIONAL NEUROLAW: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, p. 349, T.M. Spranger, ed., Springer-Verlag, 2012, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 1-5
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 04 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads
2,047
22.
Exonerations in the United States, 1989 Through 2003
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2005
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 06 Jul 2005
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Downloads
2,004
23.
Why Do We Punish? Deterrence and Just Deserts as Motives for Punishment
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 83, pp. 284-299, 2002
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 30 Mar 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Colgate University - Psychology Department, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
1,917
24.
Death as Punishment: An Analysis of Eight Arguments Against Capital Punishment
West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 111, p. 453, 2009
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 24 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Maryland at Shady Grove
Downloads
1,784
25.
Child Sexual Abuse and the State: Applying Critical Outsider Methodologies to Legislative Policymaking
UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 5, 2006
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 24 May 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Southern University Law Center
Downloads
1,745
26.
In Defense of the Death Penalty
IACJ Journal, Summer 2008
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 27 Nov 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
Downloads
1,708
27.
What's Really Wrong with Shaming Sanctions
Texas Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 2075, 2006, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 125
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 11 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
1,683
28.
Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, December 2005
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 19 Dec 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
There are 4 versions of this paper
Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, December 2005
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 19 Dec 2005
Downloads
1,661
Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1949
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 30 Jan 2006
Downloads
199
Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
NBER Working Paper No. w11982
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 20 Apr 2006
Last Revised: 29 Sep 2010
Downloads
55
Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5493
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 19 May 2006
Downloads
18
Downloads
1,661
29.
'All Eyez on Me': America's War on Drugs and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 05 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Arkansas at Little Rock - William H. Bowen School of Law
Downloads
1,639
30.
The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Columbia Law Review, Vol. 109, p. 182, January 2009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-016
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 05 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
Downloads
1,618
31.
Banishment By a Thousand Laws: Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders
Washington University Law Review, Vol. 85, p. 101, 2007
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 29 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 18 Jan 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads
1,596
32.
Disentangling Child Pornography from Child Sex Abuse
Washington University Law Review, Vol. 88, 2010, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 34
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 28 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 08 Aug 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of North Carolina School of Law
Downloads
1,555
33.
Disposing of Children: The Eighth Amendment and Juvenile Life Without Parole after Roper
Boston College Law Review, Vol. 47, p. 1083, 2006
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 29 Aug 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Boston College
Downloads
1,543
34.
Who is Andrea Yates? A Short Story About Insanity
Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Vol. 10, pp. 1-139, 2003
Number of pages: 138
Posted: 08 Oct 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads
1,519
35.
No, Capital Punishment is Not Morally Required: Deterrence, Deontology, and the Death Penalty
Stanford Law Review, Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 125
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 28 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
1,516
36.
Do People Want Optimal Deterrence?
University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 77
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School, University of California, San Diego and Princeton University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Do People Want Optimal Deterrence?
University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 77
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Downloads
1,512
Do People Want Optimal Deterrence?
Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1, Pt. 1, January 2000
Posted: 16 Feb 2000
Downloads
1,512
37.
Administrative Segregation, Degrees of Isolation, and Incarceration: A National Overview of State and Federal Correctional Policies
Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 301
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 01 Jul 2013
Last Revised: 15 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
Yale Law School, University of Connecticut School of Law, Independent, Yale University - Law School, Independent, Yale University - Law School, Independent and Independent
Downloads
1,460
38.
Misdemeanors
85 Southern California Law Review 101 (2012), Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2012-08
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 25 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Irvine School of Law
There are 3 versions of this paper
Misdemeanors
85 Southern California Law Review 101 (2012), Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2012-08
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 25 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012
Downloads
1,421
Misdemeanors
Chapter IN: Academy For Justice, A Report On Scholarship And Criminal Justice Reform (Erik Luna ed. 2017, Forthcoming), UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2017-41
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 16 Aug 2017
Last Revised: 10 Oct 2017
Downloads
279
Misdemeanors
Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 11, pp. 255-267, 2015
Posted: 11 Nov 2015
Downloads
1,421
39.
Brain Scans as Evidence: Truths, Proofs, Lies, and Lessons
Mercer Law Review, Vol. 62, p. 861, 2011, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 11-2
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 24 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 24 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
Downloads
1,414
40.
Probation and Parole as Methods of Mainstraiming Criminals: A Socio-Legal Analysis from Indian Perspective
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 25 Jun 2008
Working Paper Series
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
Downloads
1,404
41.
Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study
Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 19-001, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 635
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 18 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 10 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Law School
Downloads
1,388
42.
Religious Conservatives and the Death Penalty
William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, December 2000
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 22 Aug 2001
Accepted Paper Series
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law
Downloads
1,318
43.
Corporate Criminal Liability: Theory and Evidence
Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law, A. Harel & K. Hylton, eds., Edward Elgar (2012)
, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-25
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 28 Jul 2011
Last Revised: 23 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
Downloads
1,316
44.
The Insanity Defense: Nine Myths that Will Not Go Away
The Insanity Defense: Multidisciplinary Views on Its History, Trends, and Controversies (Mark D. White, Editor; Praeger, 2016 Forthcoming), NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper 2715577
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 16 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
New York Law School
Downloads
1,299
45.
Capital Punishment and Capital Murder: Market Share and the Deterrent Effects of the Death Penalty
Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 06-121
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 08 Sep 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia Law School, University of California at Berkeley and NYU Department of Sociology
Downloads
1,298
46.
Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice
University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2008, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2008-01
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 06 Oct 2008
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of San Francisco School of Law and American University of Central Asia
Downloads
1,288
47.
Looking Across the Empathic Divide: Racialized Decision Making on the Capital Jury
Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2011, p. 573, 2011, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-63
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 26 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 08 Aug 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Irvine - Department of Criminology, Law and Society and University of California, Santa Cruz - Department of Psychology
Downloads
1,278
48.
An Institutionalization Effect: The Impact of Mental Hospitalization and Imprisonment on Homicide in the United States, 1934-2001
Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 40, 2011, University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 335, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 155
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 21 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 07 Nov 2011
Working Paper Series
Columbia University
Downloads
1,258
49.
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper, No. 53
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 17 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law and University of California, Berkeley
There are 2 versions of this paper
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper, No. 53
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 17 Sep 2015
Downloads
1,256
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 12, pp. 489-513, 2016
Posted: 30 Mar 2016
Downloads
1,256
50.
Against Mercy
Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 88, 2004
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 27 May 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Florida State University College of Law (Deceased)
Downloads
1,240
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