In the article, the author examines a number of criminal procedural errors made by the preliminary investigation or operational-search authorities during the pre-trial proceedings in criminal cases of fraud, as a result of which the author draws the appropriate conclusions of a theoretical and...

In this paper I derive several straightforward restrictions imposed by the Becker model of discrimination in the highway search and pre-trial release contexts. I explain how these restrictions may be tested using real-world data at the decision level (e.g., whether to search or whether to...

In early 2009 the National Research Council (NRC) of the US National Academy of Sciences published a report that was highly critical of many established areas of forensic science and the role of criminal courts in regulating them. In the same year, the Law Commission of England and Wales...

The public finance literature tells us that user fees will introduce market-like efficiency to public good provision. Meanwhile, criminal justice scholars note that criminal justice fees have run amok, causing crippling debt, undermining reentry efforts, and raising civil rights and...

Plea bargaining dominates the U.S. criminal justice system and has garnered calls to reduce its prevalence. In 2013 Alaska's Attorney General acted banning a practice known as sentencing bargaining where the prosecutor negotiates with the defense over the length of the incarceration. I provide...

This article presents the findings of the first empirical research into self-represented defendants in criminal trials in Bhutan, including interviews with 16 judges from 14 courts in Bhutan, and analysis of judicial forms relating to the exercise or waiver of the right to counsel in 92 criminal...

The article deals with issues related to the procedural order of termination of a criminal case (criminal prosecution) in case of voluntary compensation for harm caused by a crime. The authors cite specific examples from the materials of criminal cases, which reflect the positive experience of...

Although a substantial body of research suggests that the discretion of discretion of actors in the criminal justice system is important, there is disagreement in the existing empirical literature over its role. Studies in this literature generally hypothesize that discretion plays one of two...

It is typically difficult to differentiate empirically between deterrence and incapacitation since both are a function of expected punishment. In this paper we demonstrate that the introduction of sentence enhancements (i.e. increased punishments that are added on to prison sentences that would...