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The Effects of Wartime on Discrimination in the Punishment of Arab vs. Jewish Defendants in the Israeli Criminal Law System
The present article follows upon a previous one dealing with the discrimination of Arab defendants in Israel. If focuses on the effect of wartime on...
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Blind Justice or Blind Justices? On Punitive Discrimination of Arab Criminal Defendants in Israel
This article examines discrimination in the Israeli criminal justice system based on the ethnic origin (Jewish or Arab) of both defendants and...
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Racial disparities in youth pretrial detention: a retrospective cohort study grounded in critical race theory
Background and methodPretrial detention makes up 75% of juvenile detention admissions and contributes to the disproportionate contact of minoritized...
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Contexts sha** misdemeanor system interventions among people with mental illnesses: qualitative findings from a multi-site system map** exercise
BackgroundPeople with mental illnesses are disproportionately entangled in the criminal legal system. Historically, this involvement has resulted...
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The mark of a felony conviction: How does the threat of a felony influence willingness to accept a plea?
ObjectivesInvestigate how the threat of a possible felony conviction affects defendants’ willingness to accept a plea (WTAP) and whether perceptions...
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Legal Process as Racialized Punishment: The Material Consequences of Discretionary Arrests in New York City
Order maintenance policing—a systematic focus on the aggressive enforcement of low-level offenses, influenced by the “broken windows”...
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Does Measurement Matter? Examining the Impact of Outcome Measurement Variation On the Rates and Predictors of Juvenile Recidivism
Concerns have been raised that cross-agency differences in the definition and measurement of juvenile recidivism may hamper the generalizability of...
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A Continuum of Incident Classifications
The chapter begins with the classification of allegations on a continuum of egregiousness. Intake procedures are presented, with a classification and...
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Examining the causal effect of pretrial detention on case outcomes: a judge fixed effect instrumental variable approach
Exploiting quasi-random assignment to NYC arraignment judges with varying propensities to detain, we use a judge fixed effect instrumental variable...
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Impact of Extralegal and Community Factors on Police Officers’ Decision to Book Arrests for Minor Offenses
Booked arrests carry greater harms than non-booked arrests. When booked following an arrest, individuals are confined without guilt and an official...
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The Development of German Criminal Law Against Corruption in the Private Sector
Public and private corruption is no longer a problem of develo** and emerging countries alone but has developed into a cross-border phenomenon. The...
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Criminal Legal System Response to Intimate Partner Violence
In 1978, John Rideout became the first man in the United States to be prosecuted for ra** his wife while they were living together. Although...
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Where is the Evidence? Comparing the Effects of Evidence Strength and Demographic Characteristics on Plea Discounts
ObjectivesIt is well established that defendants who plead guilty receive reduced sentences compared to the likely outcome if convicted at trial....
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Police Body-Worn Cameras and Structuration: A Silver-Plated Bullet and the Status Quo
Using the structuration paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to make sense of the implementation body-worn cameras at the Pennybridge Police...
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Can we Break the School to Prison Pipeline through Partnerships? A Quasi-experimental Evaluation of the Effects of School Justice Partnerships
ObjectivesThe over usage of exclusionary discipline to address school-based behaviors remains a substantive concern given the linkage between school...
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Do oil price fluctuations influence criminal activity in energy rich regions? Evidence from California’s Central Valley
This paper investigates whether shocks in oil prices affect the level of crime in Kern County, California’s top oil producing county. Monthly data...
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Diverting Special Categories of Offenders to Community Treatment Programs
In this chapter, alternative methods for processing certain categories of offenders are explored. Various specialty courts for the mentally ill,...
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Direct and Indirect Militarization of Public Security in Mexico and Gun Use During Arrests
In Mexico, there has been some analysis of the involvement of the military in law enforcement, its impact on violent crime, and patterns of human...