O Eren, N Mocan - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018 - aeaweb.org
Employing the universe of juvenile court decisions in a US state between 1996 and 2012, we analyze the effects of emotional shocks associated with unexpected outcomes of football …
Misdemeanor convictions are typically dismissed as low-level events that do not deserve the attention or due process accorded to felonies. And yet, ten million petty cases are filed every …
J Rappaport - The University of Chicago Law Review, 2020 - JSTOR
The American criminal justice system's ills are by now so familiar as scarcely to bear repeating: unprecedented levels of incarceration, doled out disproportionately across racial …
Since mid-2014, events in Ferguson, Staten Island, Baltimore, and around the country have brought to the nation's attention the racial and spatial differences in how people interact with …
M Alexander, S Priest, H Mees - Environmental Science & Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Calls to strengthen flood risk governance are echoed across Europe amidst a growing consensus that floods will increase in the future. Accompanying the pursuit of societal …
In 2008, Mark Jensen stood trial for the murder of his wife Julie in a Kenosha County Circuit Court in Wisconsin.'At one point in the trial, the presiding judge commented:" People who …
Corporate compliance is becoming increasingly" criminalized." What began as a means of industry self-regulation has morphed into a multi-billion-dollar effort to avoid government …
The moral and social norms that bear on contracts of adhesion suggest a deep ambivalence. Contracts are perceived as serious moral obligations, and yet they must be …