Deirdre Palk, Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion, 1780-1830

Sentencing guidelines, judicial discretion and plea bargaining

The United States Sentencing Commission was created to develop federal sentencing guidelines, which restrict judicial discretion and were found to increase the average sentence length while leaving unchanged the likelihood of resolution through plea bargaining. A game theoretic model is developed in which a sentencing commission may impose guidelines or defer to judicial discretion; then a defe...

Comments on [Israeli] Proposal for Structuring Judicial Discretion in Sentencing

Science and sensibility: gender and scientific enquiry, 1780–1945

and the special positions of Jews, Muslims and women in the field of medical care. From their special knowledge of the archives, they are able to present new details on the demographic distribution of medical practitioners throughout the Kingdom of Valencia during the fourteenth century. McVaugh, Garcia Ballester and Rubio Vela are at their most speculative when attempting to explain the increa...

Gender, Critical Mass, and Judicial Decision Making

We examine the role of gender in legal decision making by applying critical mass theory to the U.S. federal district courts. We analyze whether behavioral differences manifest themselves in the decision-making proclivities of male and female judges, contingent on the existence of a critical mass of female judges at a court point (i.e., each city in which a district court is located). Our result...

French Travellers to Scotland, 1780-1830: An Analysis of some Travel journals

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