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Cost neglect increases punishment in prosecutors
Date created: 2021-09-16 02:24 PM | Last Updated: 2021-09-27 02:47 PM
Identifier: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/U749F
Category: Project
Abstract. Prosecutors can influence judges’ sentencing decisions by the sentencing recommendations they make—but prosecutors are insulated from the costs of those sentences, which critics have described as a correctional “free lunch”. In a nationally distributed survey experiment, we show that when a sample of (N = 178) professional prosecutors were insulated from sentencing cost information, thei…
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