Nudges for Judges: An Experiment on the Effect of Making Sentencing Costs Explicit

Judges are typically tasked to consider sentencing benefits but not costs. Previous research finds that both laypeople and prosecutors discount the costs of incarceration when forming sentencing attitudes, raising important questions about whether professional judges show the same bias during senten...

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Main Authors: Eyal Aharoni, Heather M. Kleider-Offutt, Sarah F. Brosnan, Morris B. Hoffman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.889933/full