The last several years have seen" a truly astounding" and" unprecedented" outpouring of
scholarship and commentary decrying the large number of individuals held in pretrial …

Studies on the criminal justice process up to the point of conviction show that defendants
who belong to racially marginalized groups suffer a greater risk of being wrongfully …

Legal economists have explained the standard of proof in criminal law by exploring the
asymmetry between social costs of false negatives (acquitting guilty defendants) and false …

Cabe distinguir tres supuestos típicos en los que los Estados responden patrimonialmente
por las consecuencias lesivas de los errores cometidos por sus jueces al apreciar los …

A cornerstone of Western criminal justice is the notion that it is better to let ten guilty men go
free than to imprison one innocent man. 1 To date, however, 2,647 wrongful convictions …

We develop a dynamic model of a criminal case, from arrest through plea bargaining and
(possibly) trial, allowing for the potential discovery of exculpatory evidence by prosecutors …

People who are wrongfully convicted are a unique vulnerable group. However, not all
exonerees get compensated for their time in prison. This research explores public opinion …

This is a new and significantly updated edition of a standard text for the field of Law and
Economics. Taking a straightforward approach and written in an accessible manner without …

In some legal systems, non-convicted pretrial detainees are to be compensated by the
Government for the losses derived from their stay on remand. Several theoretical and …

The implications of a strategic model of plea bargaining are threefold. First, plea bargaining
unequivocally increases wrongful convictions. Next, partial bans on plea bargaining reduce …