Sep 2026· Review of Law & Economics· 1 citation· 21 references
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Abstract Is it possible that personal traits such as race, gender, and ideology impact how judges make their judicial decisions? Our objective in this paper is to understand how judges’ gender affects the judicial decision-making process in criminal cases in which a woman is a victim. We also investigate whether some external events and elements change the manner judges make decisions on criminal issues. We employ a linear probability model and use a time milestone: the beginning of the #MeToo movement. Our database consists of more than 2 million criminal cases that were judged by circuit court judges (1st instance) from 2011 to 2024 at the State Court of São Paulo, the largest court in Brazil. Our results show that the probability of being convicted by a female judge is greater than with a male one but, perhaps surprisingly, that female judges are not more likely to convict in gender-related cases. Furthermore, we found differences in the judgment of gender-sensitive crimes before and after the “#MeToo” movement.
Criminal justice system is not gender neutral. Female and male offenders are often differently treated. This research is aimed to study gender disparities in the construction of cases, the effect of gender in receiving an immediate custodial sentence and to explain whether disparities are legitimate or not. For this an...
Isabel García Domínguez· Journal of Criminal Law· 0 citations
Abstract Understanding the determinants of judicial performance is of the utmost importance to promote economic prosperity. The Italian judiciary is notoriously slow, with an estimated backlog of more than three million cases. We use a sample of 652,174 cases from one small claims court in Italy to limit geographical h...
A. Melcarne, G. Ramello, P. M. Skiba· Journal of Institutional Eco...· 0 citations
We examine how judge–public co‐partisanship conditions the effects of policy losses on approval of the court and perceptions of the court as political and legal.
We use a repeated measure vignette experiment to examine the within‐respondent change in court approval and perceptions of the court as political...
Nathaniel T. W. Carrington, Joseph A. Coll, Logan Strother· Social Science Quarterly· 0 citations
This study examines drug-related offenses and judicial practices reflected in the records of the Bilecik High Criminal Court between 1961 and 1972. The research is based on 25 cases identified in court records from this period. The selected timeframe covers the years between the political transformation following the 2...
The Western Cape High Court in Democratic Alliance v Hlophe and Others (16170/24) [2025] ZAWCHC 120 held that the nomination of former Judge President to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was unconstitutional based on his prior impeachment. The issue before the Court was whether an impeached judge may be nominated...
P. Masumbe, Bulelani Thukuse· Mizan Law Review· 0 citations
The criminal defendant is an undertheorized social actor in the era of mass criminalization. This article introduces two complementary frameworks to stimulate theory-building on defendants’ subjectivity. The first framework develops the metaphor of the judicial. Where much scholarship considers the carceral (i.e., pr...
Matthew Clair· annual review of criminology· 0 citations
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