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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: 14 Sep 2012

Working Paper Series

Sonja B. Starr

University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 12,161

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

Gabriel "Jack" Chin

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Downloads 5,721

3.

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

Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 4,766

4.

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

M. Marit Rehavi and Sonja B. Starr

University of British Columbia and University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 4,586

5.

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

David Abrams, Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics

Downloads 3,813

6.

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

Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin and Joanna Shepherd

Emory University - Department of Economics, Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,316

7.

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

James Forman, Jr. Jr.

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 3,211

8.

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

Peter N. Salib

Sidley Austin LLP

Downloads 3,035

9.

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

Isaac Ehrlich

State University of New York at Buffalo - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,941

10.

Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2017

Working Paper Series

Anita Mukherjee

University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business

Downloads 2,911

11.

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

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Amanda Y. Agan and Sonja B. Starr

Rutgers University, Department of Economics and University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 2,826

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

Owen D. Jones, Joshua Buckholtz, Jeffrey D. Schall and Rene Marois

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

Downloads 2,782

13.

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

Sonja B. Starr

University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 2,436

14.

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

Deborah W. Denno

Fordham University School of Law

Downloads 2,425

15.

'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

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Gary S. Becker, Francois Ewald and Bernard E. Harcourt

University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and Columbia University

Downloads 2,225

16.

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

Francis X. Shen, Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Joshua D. Greene and Rene Marois

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

Downloads 2,048

17.

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

Steven F. Shatz and Naomi R. Shatz

University of San Francisco - School of Law and Zalkind Duncan and Bernstein LLP

Downloads 1,911

18.

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

Samuel R. Gross, Kristen Jacoby, Daniel J. Matheson, Nicholas Montgomery and Sujata Patil

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 1,871

19.

'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

Ira Mark Ellman and Tara Ellman

Arizona State University College of Law and Independent

Downloads 1,820

20.

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

Lucian E. Dervan and Vanessa Edkins

Belmont University School of Law and Florida Institute of Technology

Downloads 1,782

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

Owen D. Jones and Francis X. Shen

Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and University of Minnesota Law School

Downloads 1,779

22.

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

Kevin M. Carlsmith, John M. Darley and Paul H. Robinson

Colgate University - Psychology Department, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,744

23.

Risk, Race, & Recidivism: Predictive Bias and Disparate Impact

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016

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Jennifer L. Skeem and Christopher T. Lowenkamp

University of California, Berkeley and Government of the United States of America - Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Downloads 1,669

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

Dawinder S. Sidhu

University of Baltimore School of Law

Downloads 1,619

25.

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

Corey Rayburn Yung

University of Kansas School of Law

Downloads 1,564

26.

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

Ruby P Andrew

Southern University Law Center

Downloads 1,535

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

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 1,523

28.

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

Hillary J. Massey

Boston College

Downloads 1,518

29.

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

John J. Donohue III and Justin Wolfers

Stanford Law School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,492

30.

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

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Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade and Daniel Kahneman

Harvard Law School, University of California, San Diego and Princeton University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,480

31.

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

Deborah W. Denno

Fordham University School of Law

Downloads 1,465

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

Carissa Byrne Hessick

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law

Downloads 1,443

33.

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

Carol S. Steiker

Harvard Law School

Downloads 1,411

34.

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

Adam J. Kolber

Brooklyn Law School

Downloads 1,388

35.

'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: 24 May 2012

Accepted Paper Series

andré douglas pond cummings

The John Marshall Law School

Downloads 1,333

36.

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

Sabyasachi Ghosh

The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences

Downloads 1,288

37.

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

Francis X. Shen and Owen D. Jones

University of Minnesota Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences

Downloads 1,264

38.

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

Jeffrey Fagan, Franklin Zimring and Amanda Geller

Columbia Law School, University of California at Berkeley and NYU Department of Sociology

Downloads 1,236

39.

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

Thomas C. Berg

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law

Downloads 1,227

40.

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

Hope Metcalf, Jamelia N Morgan, Samuel Oliker-Friedland, Judith Resnik, Julia Spiegel, Haran Tae, Alyssa Roxanne Work and Brian Holbrook

Yale Law School, ACLU National Prison Project, Independent, Yale University - Law School, Independent, Yale University - Law School, Independent and Independent

Downloads 1,223

41.

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

Constance de la Vega and Michelle T. Leighton

University of San Francisco School of Law and American University of Central Asia

Downloads 1,214

42.

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

Bernard E. Harcourt

Columbia University

Downloads 1,184

43.

Be Careful What You Wish for: Legal Sanctions and Public Safety Among Adolescent Offenders in Juvenile and Criminal Court

Columbia Law School, Pub. Law Research Paper No. 03-61

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 06 Feb 2004 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2007

Working Paper Series

Jeffrey Fagan, Aaron Kupchik and Akiva Liberman

Columbia Law School, University of Delaware, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and National Institute on Drug Abuse

Downloads 1,125

44.

In Defense of the Death Penalty

IACJ Journal, Summer 2008

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 Nov 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Paul G. Cassell

University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law

Downloads 1,122

45.

Against Mercy

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 88, 2004

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 27 May 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Dan Markel

Florida State University College of Law (Deceased)

Downloads 1,092

46.

The Political Constitution of Criminal Justice

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 126

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 14 Aug 2005

Working Paper Series

William J. Stuntz

Harvard Law School

Downloads 1,091

47.

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

Alexandra Natapoff

University of California, Irvine School of Law

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,089

48.

Prison Visitation Policies: A Fifty State Survey

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 23 May 2014

Working Paper Series

Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz and Aaron Littman

Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School

Downloads 1,071

49.

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

Jennifer Arlen

New York University School of Law

Downloads 1,069

50.

The Efficacy of Severe Child Pornography Sentencing: Empirical Validity or Political Rhetoric?

Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 545, 2011

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Melissa Hamilton

University of Surrey School of Law

Downloads 1,055

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