In 2004, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamic extremist in Amsterdam brutally murdered Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker known for his critique of Islam. Using difference-in-differences approach, we show that, Amsterdam, the assassination resulted more than 19-percentage-point increase likelihood prosecution unrelated violent crimes male suspects born Muslim-majority countries. The effect is detectable during...

Tujuan penelitian untuk mengidentifikasi Kewenangan dalam pengelolaan terhadap penyimpanan benda sitaan narkotika dan menganalisis peran kejaksaan pemusnahan narkotika. Metode ini menggunakan yuridis yaitu yang mengkaji tentang keberlakuan Undang-undang praktik hukum. dilaksanakan oleh Rupbasan sebagai wadah sitaan, kewenagan diemabn bertanggungjawab atas disimpan pada kejaksaan, serta Badan Na...

Abstract Previous studies of judgment and decision‐making in adjudication have largely focused on juries judges. This body work demonstrated that legal training professional experience sometimes affect attitudes mitigate the susceptibility to cognitive biases, but often they do not. Relatively few experimental examined decisions prosecutors defense lawyers, although play a major role, especiall...

Throughout the criminal justice system, prosecutors have wide discretion to exercise their authority in determining what crimes should be prosecuted. This discretion has historic support through both constitutional separation of powers doctrines and public policy. This discretion is based on a variety of factors, including the severity of the crime, the extent of the evidence, prosecutorial res...

This article first offers a comparison between the stereotype dominated understanding of infanticide and child homicide in the United States and the statistical landscape it obscures. It then turns to the history of the crime of infanticide, a history which confirms that a fascination with deviant women as long dominated the story of infanticide. The article concludes with the exploration of th...

Financial exploitation by a family member is the most common form of elder mistreatment; yet, it is a difficult crime to detect and prosecute. Psychologists have traditionally assisted prosecutors by assessing decisional capacity and opining in court whether an alleged victim was able to consent to the contested transactions. This article proposes and evaluates a novel form of psychological exp...

INTRODUCTION The advent of forensic DNA typing techniques in 1985 revolutionized the investigation and prosecution of sexual and other violent offenders. Previously, traditional serological analyses furnished investigators, prosecutors and others in the criminal justice system with important scientific information. These conventional testing approaches provided only limited information regardin...

The reliability of confessions is subject to a variety of factors, some of which give rise to expert testimony. To the degree that prosecutors construe the determination of reliability as an objective standard, they may attempt to bar testimony. Moreover, when the testimony is theoretical rather than clinical, there are additional challenges. Depending on jurisdiction, the admissibility of expe...

Using rich data linking federal cases from arrest through to sentencing, we find that initial case and defendant characteristics, including arrest offense and criminal history, can explain most of the large raw racial disparity in federal sentences, but significant gaps remain. Across the distribution, blacks receive sentences that are almost 10 percent longer than those of comparable whites ar...