Philippe, Arnaud (2017) Does introducing lay people in criminal courts affect judicial decisions?: Evidence from French reform. International Review of Law and Economics, 52. pp. 1-15.
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Abstract
What is the effect of introducing jury members in criminal courts? While surveys regularly point out a demand by citizens for harsher punishment, the differences between surveys’ and real decisions’ conditions are large enough to cast a doubt on the results. The introduction of two jurors into a court composed of three professional judges in two French regions and for a subsample of crimes during sixteen months offers a good natural experiment. Difference-in-differences or triple-difference methods do not permit me to identify any major change in the probability of being convicted or in sentences given by a court including jurors. If some characteristics of the reform could partly explain those null results, they clearly go against the hypothesis of a major disagreement between professional judges and citizens when they have to make real decisions in criminal cases.
Item Type: | Article |
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Sub-title: | Evidence from French reform |
Language: | English |
Date: | October 2017 |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Courts, Sentencing, Crime, Judicial decision, Jury members |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2018 08:17 |
Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2021 13:37 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:32040 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/25686 |
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