Missing rich offenders : traffic accidents and the impartiality of justice
License
Cadmus Permanent Link
Full-text via DOI
ISBN
ISSN
2194-6000; 1555-5879
Issue Date
Type of Publication
LC Subject Heading
Other Topic(s)
EUI Research Cluster(s)
Initial version
Published version
Succeeding version
Preceding version
Published version part
Earlier different version
Initial format
Author(s)
Citation
Review of law & economics, 2018, Vol. 14, No. 1, (UNSP 20170001)
Cite
KURMANGALIYEVA, Madina, Missing rich offenders : traffic accidents and the impartiality of justice, Review of law & economics, 2018, Vol. 14, No. 1, (UNSP 20170001) - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59993
Abstract
This paper estimates the effect that wealth and power have on criminal justice outcomes by exploiting the random matching of drivers to pedestrians in traffic accidents. If justice is impartial, we should observe the same share of rich offenders both for poor and rich victims, conditional on location and time. Rich victims act as a control group to estimate the proportion of missing rich offenders whose victims are less powerful. I use this estimation approach on data from Russia, and find that its justice system is not impartial. The same approach can be applied not only to other countries but also to other characteristics that should be irrelevant to judicial outcomes in an impartial legal system, such as race and gender.
Table of Contents
Additional Information
Published online: 22 February 2018
External Links
Publisher
Version
Research Projects
Sponsorship and Funder Information
Russian Science foundation [17-18-01618]