Sentencing & Punishment

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Accuracy in the Determination of Liability, 37 J.L. & Econ. 1 (1994).

Lucian A. Bebchuk & Louis Kaplow, Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed about the Probability of Apprehension, 21 J. Legal Stud. 365 (1992).

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

R. Barry Ruback & Jonathan J. Wroblewski, The Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Psychological and Policy Reasons for Simplification, Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 739 (2001).

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).

Christopher Lewis, Risk-Based Sentencing and the Principles of Punishment, 112 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 213 (2022).

Christopher Lewis, Inequality, Incentives, Criminality & Blame, 22 Legal Theory 153 (2016).

Christopher Lewis, Mass Incarceration, Risk and the Principles of Punishment, 112 J. Crim. L. & Criminology (forthcoming 2021).

Christopher Lewis, The Paradox of Recidivism, 70 Emory L.J. 1209 (2021).

Patty B. Saris, So Much Accomplished, So Much Left to Do: A Retrospective on Six Years as a Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission,…

Patty B. Saris, The Pendulum of Criminal Justice Since 1967, 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1472 (2018).

Alexandra Natapoff, Opinion, Americans Are Hungry and Desperate. California Shouldn’t Respond by Cracking Down on Food Theft, Wash. Post, Oct. 26, 2020.

Alexandra Natapoff, Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System, 30 Cardozo L. Rev. 965 (2008).

Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching and the Use of Criminal Informants, in Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology (Beth M. Huebner ed., 2012).

Alexandra Natapoff, Aggregation and Urban Misdemeanors, 40 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1043 (2013).

Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff, Introduction: Mapping the New Criminal Justice Thinking, in The New Criminal Justice Thinking 1 (Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff eds.,…

Alexandra Natapoff, Gideon’s Servants and the Criminalization of Poverty, 12 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 445 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, in 1 Reforming Criminal Justice: Introduction and Criminalization 71 (Academy for Justice, Erik Luna ed., 2017).

The New Criminal Justice Thinking (Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff eds., 2017).

Alexandra Natapoff, Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State, 133 Harv. L. Rev. F. 147 (2020).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 85 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1313 (2012).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanor Decriminalization, 68 Vand. L. Rev. 1055 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, Speechless: The Silencing of Criminal Defendants, 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1449 (2005).

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

Daniel S. Kahn, Guilty Until Proven Innocent, The Burden of Proof in Wrongful Conviction Claims Under State Compensation Statutes, 44 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 123…

Cass R. Sunstein, Misery and Company, New Republic, Oct. 22, 2008, at 39 (reviewing Marc Sageman, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century (2008)).

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

Cass R. Sunstein & Daniel Kahneman, Indignation: Psychology, Politics, Law (John M. Olin Program in L. & Econ., Working Paper No. 346, 2007).

Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade & Ilana Ritov, Predictably Incoherent Judgments, 54 Stan. L. Rev. 1153 (2002).

Jay Blitzman, We Need Truth and Reconciliation, CommonWealth (Sept. 27, 2020), https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/we-need-truth-and-reconciliation/.

Bruce Ackerman & Yochai Benkler, Private Manning’s Humiliation, 58 N.Y. Rev. Books 62 (2011).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Punitive Damages, in 3 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 192 (Peter Newman ed., 1998).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Punitive Damages, in II Encyclopedia of Law and Economics 764 (Boudewijn Bouckaert & Gerritt De Geest eds., 2000).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Punitive Damages: An Economic Perspective, in 13 Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert (Roman L. Weil,…

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Law: Economics of its Public Enforcement, in 12 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 8510 (Neil J.

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Should Employees be Subject to Fines and Imprisonment Given Existence of Corporate Liability?, 13 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ.

Michael Adams & Steven Shavell, Zur Strafbarkeit des Versuchs, 137 Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht 337 (1990).

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

Steven Shavell, Comparación Entre Impuestos Correctores y Responsabilidad Como Solución al Problema de las Externalidades Negativas, 151 Papeles de Economía Española 2 (2017).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven M. Shavell, Public Enforcement of Law, in 1 Handbook of Law and Economics 403 (A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven M.

Steven Shavell & A. Mitchell Polinsky, Repeat Offenders and the Theory of Deterrence (John M. Olin Ctr. L. Econ. & Bus. Discussion Paper No. 188,…

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

Steven Shavell, Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law (NBER Working Paper No. 9698, May 2003).

Steven Shavell, Economic Analysis of the General Structure of the Law (Nat’l Bureau Econ. Res. Working Paper No. w9699, Harv. L. & Econ. Discussion Paper…

Steven M. Shavell, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Belknap Press 2004).

Steven Shavell, Deterrence and the Punishment of Attempts, 19 J. Legal Stud. 435 (1990).