Responses to more severe punishment in the courtroom: evidence from truth-in-sentencing laws

0339604 - NHU-C 2010 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Tsuchimoto, F. - Dušek, Libor
Responses to more severe punishment in the courtroom: evidence from truth-in-sentencing laws.
CERGE-EI Working Paper Series. -, č. 403 (2009), s. 1-45. ISSN 1211-3298
Institutional research plan: CEZ:MSM0021620846
Keywords : criminal procedure * criminal law * truth-in-sentencing laws
Subject RIV: AG - Legal Sciences
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp403.pdf

We investigate behavioral responses of judges and prosecutors to more severe punishments by analyzing the effects of Truth-in-Sentencing (TIS) laws in a large sample of individual criminal cases. We use the "State Court Processing Statistics: Felony Defendants in Large Urban counties", an individual level dataset on approximately 100,000 criminal cases in state courts. Our evaluation of the impacts of the TIS laws produced consistent evidence on several channels of behavioral responses to longer effective prison sentences in the criminal justice process.
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