Measuring and Explaining Charge Bargaining

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Opening Pandora’s Box: How Does Defendant Race Influence Plea Bargaining? (2016, background): “Overall, comparatively little contemporary research examines the influence of race and ethnicity on prosecutorial decision-making, particularly when it comes to the process of plea bargaining (Piehl & Bushway, 2007; Shermer & Johnson, 2010; Spohn, Gruhl, & Welch, 1987).”
A Multilevel Test of Minority Threat Effects on Sentencing (2010, methodology): “The data, available from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (study number 2038), have been used by a number of scholars (see, e.g., Bushway and Piehl 2007; Demuth and Steffensmeier 2004; Fearn 2005; Piehl and Bushway 2007; Steffensmeier and Demuth 2006; Weidner et al”
Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research (2012, methodology): “Substantive rationality in criminal sentencing is thus oriented toward flexible and individualized decision-making in service of particular substantive goals (Savelsberg, 1992). The flexibility inherent in substantive rationality, however, permits the possibility of bias, discrimination, and unwarra”