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 Chicago
Downloads
22,906
2.
Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism
Mukherjee, Anita. 2020. "Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 13 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 12 Aug 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Wisconsin School of Business
Downloads
7,425
3.
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
6,929
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
University of British Columbia and University of Chicago
Downloads
6,810
5.
Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 25 Mar 2005
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
5,694
6.
Why Prison?: An Economic Critique
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 2017, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 03 Sep 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Houston Law Center
Downloads
5,517
7.
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 Carey Law School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Downloads
5,218
8.
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
5,185
9.
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 Chicago
Downloads
5,088
10.
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
4,726
11.
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
4,228
Downloads
4,228
12.
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
3,964
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
3,347
14.
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
3,336
15.
Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 133, No. 8, pp.2460-555 (June 2020)
Number of pages: 96
Posted: 18 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 12 Jun 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School and University of Chicago
Downloads
3,073
16.
An Abolitionist Horizon for (Police) Reform
California Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 6, 2020, Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 560
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 11 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2021
Working Paper Series
Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law
Downloads
3,070
17.
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 Chicago
Downloads
2,891
18.
Kriminalomsorgen: A Look at the World's Most Humane Prison System in Norway
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 11 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Duke University, School of Law, Students
Downloads
2,888
19.
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
2,880
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
Belmont University School of Law and Florida Institute of Technology
Downloads
2,791
21.
'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
2,764
22.
Solitary Confinement As a Prison Health Issue
(2014). Pp27-35 in: Who Guide to Prisons and Health. Enggist, S., Moller, L., Galea, G. And Udesen, C. (Eds). Copenhagen: World Health Organization.
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 22 Nov 2017
Accepted Paper Series
SolitaryConfinement.org
Downloads
2,708
23.
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
2,567
24.
'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
Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley and Independent
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2,508
25.
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
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2,361
26.
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
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2,278
27.
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 Carey Law School
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2,165
28.
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
2,119
29.
A Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement
Number of pages: 98
Posted: 20 Nov 2012
Working Paper Series
SolitaryConfinement.org
Downloads
2,059
30.
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 05 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 22 Apr 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law and Texas A&M University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 05 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 22 Apr 2021
Downloads
2,051
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12853
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 06 Jan 2020
Downloads
108
Downloads
2,051
31.
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
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads
2,045
32.
'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
1,961
33.
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
1,931
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
Brooklyn Law School
Downloads
1,883
35.
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
1,866
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
262
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: 30 Mar 2022
Downloads
119
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
1,866
36.
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 Jul 2021
Working Paper Series
Yale Law School, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Independent, Yale University - Law School, Independent, Yale University - Law School, Independent and Independent
Downloads
1,830
37.
Restorative Justice for the Victims of School Bullying: How Far Does the Law Go?
Paul, John (2014) "Restorative Justice For The Victims Of School Bullying: How Far Does The Law Go?," North East Journal of Legal Studies: Vol. 32, Article 5. Available at: https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/nealsb/vol32/iss1/5
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 17 Apr 2021
Accepted Paper Series
City University of New York - Brooklyn College
Downloads
1,824
38.
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 Law School
Downloads
1,822
39.
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
1,761
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
1,709
41.
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
Harvard Law School
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
1,695
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
381
Misdemeanors
Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 11, pp. 255-267, 2015
Posted: 11 Nov 2015
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1,695
42.
Mujeres, cárceles y drogas: datos y reflexiones (Women, Prisons and Drugs: Data and Reflections)
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 2, No. 6, 2012
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 21 Dec 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Barcelona - Department of Sociology and Organizational Analysis, Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro and Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Departament de Dret Privat Area de Dret Processal
Downloads
1,692
43.
Repugnancy Test and Customary Criminal Law in Nigeria: A Time for Re-Assessing Content and Relevance
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 21 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) - Faculty of Law
Downloads
1,683
44.
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
1,671
45.
How Changes in American Culture Triggered Hyper-Incarceration: Variations on the Tazian View
Howard Law Journal, Forthcoming, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 14-34
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 23 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 22 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads
1,670
46.
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
1,612
47.
Movement Law
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 73, 2021, Forthcoming, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2020-68, Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 589
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 23 Nov 2020
Last Revised: 20 May 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law and Brooklyn Law School
Downloads
1,612
48.
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
1,609
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
New York University School of Law
Downloads
1,603
50.
Presidential Pardons and the Problem of Impunity
23 N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation and Public Policy __ (2021), University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-29
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 16 Nov 2020
Last Revised: 04 May 2021
Accepted Paper Series
University of Missouri School of Law
Downloads
1,600
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