Sentencing & Punishment

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 11 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 255 (2015).

Cass R. Sunstein, Moral Heuristics, 28 Behav. & Brain Sci. 531 (2005).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Deterrence and the Adjustment of Sentences During Imprisonment, 23 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 481 (2021).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, The Fairness of Sanctions: Some Implications for Optimal Enforcement Policy, 2 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 223 (2000).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law, 38 J. Econ. Lit. 45 (2000).

Holger Spamann et al., Judges in the Lab: No Precedent Effects, No Common/Civil Law Differences, 13 J. Legal Analysis 110 (2021).

Holger Spamann, Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017), 29 Psychol. Sci. 1006 (2018).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States, 3 Ann. Rev. Criminology 299…

Andrew Manuel Crespo, No Justice, No Pleas: Subverting Mass Incarceration Through Defendant Collective Action, Fordham L. Rev. (2022).

Alan M. Dershowitz, Criminal Sentencing in the United States: An Historical and Conceptual Overview, 423 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 117 (1976).

Alma Cohen & Crystal S. Yang, Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions, 11 Am. Econ. J.: Econ. Pol’y 160 (2019).

Andrew S. Effron & Jonathan J. Wroblewski, Congress Reforms Military Sentencing, Creating an Opportunity for a Productive Sentencing Reform Dialogue Between the Military and Civilian…

Jonathan J. Wroblewski & Sean M. Douglass, Two Targeted, Back-End Reforms for the Federal Criminal Justice System, 28 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 264 (2016).

Jonathan J. Wroblewski, Marvin, through the Looking-Glass, 35 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 304 (2023).

Richard M. Re, Brief of Professor Richard M. Re as Amicus Curiae in Support of Neither Party, Hughes v. United States (2018) (No. 17-155).

Emma Harrington, William Murdock, III, & Hannah Shaffer, Prediction Errors, Incarceration, and Violent Crime, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming).

Stephen Breyer, Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 36 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 244 (2024).

Stephen Breyer, The Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the Key Compromises Upon Which They Rest, 17 Hofstra L. Rev. 1 (1988).