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The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
(2019-10)
This paper evaluates how the introduction of professional police forces affected crime using two natural experiments in history: the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police
(the first police force ever tasked ...
Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
(2015-05)
This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make
three contributions to the literature ...
The Impact of Abortion on Crime and Crime-Related Behavior
(2019-06)
The 1966 abolition and 1989 legalization of abortion in Romania immediately doubled and decreased by about a third the number of births per month, respectively. To isolate the link between abortion access and crime while ...
The Fall of Capital Punishment and the Rise of Prisons: How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts
(2016-10)
This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival data set from the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1715 to 1900. We take advantage of three natural experiments ...
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 ...
Scaring or scarring? Labour market effects of criminal victimisation
(University of Gothenburg, 2019-01)
Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we
use unique and detailed register data on victimisations and labour market outcomes from
the Netherlands to overcome data restrictions ...