| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24726 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24726 |
| Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Southern State Courts | |
| Benjamin Feigenberg; Conrad Miller | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-06-18 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The US criminal justice system is exceptionally punitive. We test whether racial heterogeneity is one cause, exploiting cross-jurisdiction variation in punishment in four Southern states. We estimate the causal effect of jurisdiction on arrest charge outcome, validating our estimates using a quasi-experimental research design based on defendants charged in multiple jurisdictions. Consistent with a model of in-group bias in electorate preferences, the relationship between local punishment severity and black population share follows an inverted U-shape. Within states, defendants are 27%-54% more likely to be sentenced to incarceration in ‘peak’ heterogeneous jurisdictions than in homogeneous jurisdictions. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24726 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582399 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Benjamin Feigenberg,Conrad Miller. Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Southern State Courts. 2018. |
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| w24726.pdf（1028KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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