estimates of the causal effects of misdemeanor prosecution on defendants' subsequent criminal justice involvement. We leverage … case should move forward with prosecution in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts. These ADAs … vary in the average leniency of their prosecution decisions. We find that, for the marginal defendant, nonprosecution of a …

shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical … immunity from prosecution impacts how the Members of the Parliament (MPs) act and perform their duties in the Parliament …. Losing immunity (and the resultant presumed fear of prosecution) pacifies the MPs of the opposition parties. They become less …