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Responses to more severe punishment in the courtroom: evidence from truth-in-sentencing laws
- 1.0336993 - NHÚ 2010 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Tsuchimoto, Fusako - Dušek, L.
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:AV0Z70850503
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. The TIS laws raised effective punishment by requiring offenders to serve at least 85% of their imposed sentence in prison. Differences between the U.S. states in the timing of adoption and the types of crimes covered provide a source of identification.
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