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Petty violent offences by the type of trial, 2009-2013.

Petty violent offences by the type of trial, 2009-2013.

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The paper utilises the duality of criminal procedure in Russia - with or without the participation of public prosecutor - to compare trial outcomes for petty violent offences in the two types of trial and examine the effects associated with the participation of the public prosecutor in court. Controlling for the selection of cases into the public p...

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... from general social status characteristics, such as gender, citizenship, education, etc., the data features occupational status characteristics ranging from the unemployed to top managers, state officials, and law enforcement employees. Since battery is a widespread and non-specific type of offence, all categories of the population are well represented among offenders (see Table A1 in the Appendix). Due to differences in social status and available resources, offenders can nonetheless be expected to have different chances of favourable outcome at trials. ...
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... constitutes the absolute majority of private prosecution cases and is the second most widespread registered offence in Russia: 50 to 80 thousand cases per year and about 10 per cent of all criminal cases in courts. "Battery" is also the kind of offence that is equally typical to all strata of the Russian society (see Table A1 in the Appendix). ...
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... simplicity, I will refer to the two types of trial as "with prosecutor" and "without prosecutor" cases (see Table 1). The comparison of case outcomes shows large differences between the two types of trial. ...
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... percent Status Without prosecutor With prosecutor Without prosecutor With prosecutor Law enforcer 46 23 28 47 Public official 36 10 38 61 Entrepreneur 32 7 37 56 Top manager 35 9 33 59 Office employee 35 6 36 62 College student 30 3 46 62 Manual worker 28 3 43 56 Unemployed 32 3 42 52 record is expired when the probation period after serving the punishment is finished; until that the record is active. A premeditated offence committed by an individual with non-expired conviction for a prior premeditated offence constitutes an instance of recidivism. ...

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