Criminal Law & Procedure

Henry E. Smith, The Harm in Blackmail, 92 Nw. U. L. Rev. 861 (1998).

Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas et al., The Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions, 6 Am. Econ. Rev.: Insights 341 (2024).

Marcella Alsan & Crystal Yang, The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails (NBER Working Paper Series No. 33357,…

Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri K. Koustas et al., Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record?: Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation…

Victoria Angelova, Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, Algorithmic Recommendations When the Stakes Are High: Evidence from Judicial Elections, 114 Am. Econ. Ass’n Papers &…

Marcella Alsan, Arkey Barnett, Peter Hull et al., “Something Works” in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program, National Bureau of Economics…

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.

Marcella Alsan, Crystal S. Yang, James R. Jolin et al., Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities—A Limited and Threatened Constitutional Right, 388 New England J.

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

David Arnold, Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, Comment on Canay, Mogstad, and Mountjoy (Sept. 1, 2020).

Will S. Dobbie & Crystal Yang, The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests (NBER Working Paper No. w29332, 2021)…

Crystal Yang & Will Dobbie, Equal Protection Under Algorithms: A New Statistical and Legal Framework, 119 Mich. L. Rev. 291 (2020).

Will Dobbie & Crystal Yang, Proposals for Improving the U.S. Pre-Trial System (The Hamilton Project Policy Proposal 2019-5, Mar. 2019).

David Arnold, Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, Racial Bias in Bail Decisions, 133 Q.J. Econ. 1885 (2018).

Crystal S. Yang, Does Public Assistance Reduce Recidivism?, 107 Am. Econ. Rev. 551 (2017).

Crystal S. Yang, Toward an Optimal Bail System, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1399 (2017).

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

Crystal S. Yang, Local Labor Markets and Criminal Recidivism, 147 J. Pub. Econ. 16 (2017).

Crystal S. Yang, Have Interjudge Sentencing Disparities Increased in an Advisory Guidelines Regime? Evidence from Booker, 89 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1268 (2014).

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