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A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
(2016-02)
This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act ...
The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions
(2019-10)
We document persistent gender gaps favoring females in jury convictions and judge sentences in nearly 200 years of London trials, which are unexplained by case characteristics. We find that three sharp changes in punishment ...