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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Notable empirical examination of truth-in-sentencing laws in operation

By Douglas A. Berman

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I just noticed on SSRN this article by two European economists titled "Responses to More Severe Punishment in the Courtroom: Evidence from Truth-in-Sentencing Laws." Here is the abstract: We investigate behavioral responses of agents in the criminal process 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 the effective punishment by requiring offenders to serve at least 85% of their 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.  The TIS laws increased the likelihood that the defendant would be acquitted or the case would be dismissed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).

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