Sentencing & Punishment

Amanda Y. Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri K. Koustas et al., Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions (Nat’l Bureau of Econ. Rsch., Working Paper No.

Crystal Yang and Will Dobbie, The Economic Costs of Pretrial Detention, 2021 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 251 (2021).

Will Dobbie, Jacob Goldin & Crystal S. Yang, The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges, 108…

Crystal S. Yang, Free at Last? Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing, 44 J. Legal Stud. 75 (2015).

Crystal S. Yang, Resource Constraints and the Criminal Justice System: Evidence From Judicial Vacancies, 8 AEJ: Econ. Pol’y 289 (2016).

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

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The American Death Penalty: Alternative Model for Ordinary Criminal Justice or Exception that Justifies the Rule?, 22 New…

Carol S. Steiker, Foreword: The Limits of the Preventive State, 88 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 771 (1998).

Carol Steiker, Punishing Hateful Motives: Old Wine in a New Bottle Revives Calls for Prohibition, 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1857 (1999)(reviewing James B. Jacobs &…

Carol S. Steiker, Remembering Race, Rape and Capital Punishment, 84 Va. L. Rev. 693 (1997)(reviewing Eric W. Rise, The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital…

Carol Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Review Essay: Let God Sort Them Out? Refining the Individualization Requirement in Capital Sentencing, 102 Yale L.J. 835 (1992)(reviewing…

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

Donald I. Baker, Barbara A. Reeves, Alan M. Dershowitz, Arthur L. Liman & Stanton Wheeler , The Paper Label Sentences: Critiques, 86 Yale L.J. 619…

Alan M. Dershowitz, Foreword: Evaluating a Proposed Criminal Code, 72 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 381 (1981).

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

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).

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,…

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