Misdemeanor Prosecution
Abstract
Misdemeanor crimes make up 80 percent of all crimes in the criminal justice system. Meanwhile, communities across the United States are beginning to reconsider the public safety benefits of prosecuting these low-level crimes. This issue of PERCspectives on Research summarizes the first study of its kind, where PERC Professor Jennifer L. Doleac, along with Amanda Agan and Anna Harvey, report the effects of nonviolent misdemeanor prosecution on defendants’ subsequent criminal justice involvement by studying leniency in Assistant District Attorney decisions.
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Citation
Doleac, Jennifer L.; Agan, Amanda; Harvey, Anna (2021). Misdemeanor Prosecution. Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /199325.