Sentencing & Punishment

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).

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

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

Michael J. Klarman, Is the Supreme Court Sometimes Irrelevant? Race and the Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s, 89 J. Am. Hist. 119 (2002).

Claudia M. Landeo & Kathryn E. Spier, Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency, 63 J.L. & Econ. 71 (2020).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Capital Clemency in the Age of Constitutional Regulation: Reversing the Unwarranted Decline, 102 Tev. L. Rev. 1449 (2024).

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…

John Rappaport & Andrew M. Crespo, Criminal Law and the American Penal System (forthcoming).

Eli Ben-Michael, D. James Greiner, Melody Huang et al., Does AI help humans make better decisions? A methodological framework for experimental evaluation, arXiv (Mar. 20,…

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

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

Stephen G. Breyer, The Problem of the Honest Monopolist, 44 Antitrust L.J. 194 (1975).

Stephen Breyer, The Federal Sentencing Guidelines: A Dialogue, 26 Crim. L. Bull. 5 (1990).

Stephen Breyer, Justice Breyer: Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 14 CRIM. Just. 28 (1999).

Stephen Breyer, Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 11 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 180 (1999).

Stephen Breyer, Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 29 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 194 (2017).

Stephen G. Breyer, The Original U. S. Sentencing Guidelines and Suggestions for a Fairer Future, 46 Hofstra L. Rev. 799 (2018).

Stephen Breyer, Against the Death Penalty (John Bessler ed., 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).