Legal scholar’s new website offers a picture of the criminal justice system

Friday, May 29, 2020 - 13:52 in Mathematics & Economics

Using a small subset of death-eligible murder cases, a new database launched by a Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor offers a glimpse into the criminal justice system – more specifically the Circuit Court of Cook County pretrial detention system in the first six months of 2003 – and the bureaucracy surrounding them. Leigh Bienen, a senior lecturer […]

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