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In 2019, New York State passed bail reform legislation that limited the use of money bail and expanded pretrial release. The bail reform law took effect on January 1, 2020. We evaluated the effect of this law on crime rates in New York State. Interrupted time series analyses (ITSA) were used to examine whether the bail reform was significantly asso...
In the Chinese mainland, restorative justice is closely related to “people’s mediation” and “victim-offender reconciliation.” These two terms reflect the content of restorative justice from different perspectives. Restorative justice was first introduced to the Chinese mainland in 2002, followed by some preliminary research. In-depth evaluation was...
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We examine public attitudes towards false positives and false negatives in criminal justice risk assessment and how people’s choices differ in varying offenses and stages.
Methods
We use data from a factorial survey experiment conducted with a sample of 575 Americans. Respondents were randomly assigned to different conditions in the vig...
Prior studies have revealed that wrongful conviction may affect people’s view of the death penalty. But few of them explained why people who believed innocent people were executed still supported the death penalty. This study proposes that what matters may not be whether respondents believed that wrongful convictions existed or not, but rather thei...
Objectives: This research examines whether the information about different wrongful conviction rates would affect death penalty opinion. It is the first experiment to examine how different estimates of the rate of wrongful conviction, rather than general information of innocence, affect views about capital punishment.
Methods: I use Amazon Mechani...
I. Introduction II. Wrongful Convictions and Failed Affirmative Defenses III. When Rejected Affirmative Defenses Produce Wrongful Convictions: Case Studies ... A. Exonerations in the Wake of Rejected Justification Defenses ... B. Exonerations in the Wake of Rejected Excuse Defenses IV. What Went Wrong? Sources of Error in Failed Affirmative Defense...
