Correctional “Free Lunch”? Cost Neglect Increases Punishment in Prosecutors

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 o...

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Main Authors: Eyal Aharoni, Heather M. Kleider-Offutt, Sarah F. Brosnan
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f4e467e83003478592a66231426513a5
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