The Initiation of Criminal Prosecutions by Indictment or Information

Moley, Raymond

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“…Another group of studies focused on differences arising in case processing and disposition when prosecution was commenced based on a grand jury indictment versus a prosecutor's information. Raymond Moley (1931) compared five states using prosecutor's informations and four states relying on grand jury indictments; the basis of comparison was a data set of 9,362 cases collected from information states (specifically for Moley's analysis) and 30,307 cases collected by previous crime survey projects in indictment states. The analysis showed higher conviction rates on average in information states (67 percent) than in grand jury states (52 percent).…”

Section: Empirical Research On Criminal Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical Legal Studies Before 1940: A Bibliographic Essay

Kritzer

2009

J Empirical Legal Studies

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The modern empirical legal studies movement has well‐known antecedents in the law and society and law and economics traditions of the latter half of the 20th century. Less well known is the body of empirical research on legal phenomena from the period prior to World War II. This article is an extensive bibliographic essay that surveys the English‐language empirical legal research from approximately 1940 and earlier. The article is arranged around the themes in the research: criminal justice, civil justice (general studies of civil litigation, auto accident litigation and compensation, divorce, small claims, jurisdiction and procedure, civil juries), debt and bankruptcy, banking, appellate courts, legal needs, legal profession (including legal education), and judicial staffing and selection. Accompanying the article is an extensive bibliography of research articles, books, and reports.

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Section: Empirical Research On Criminal Justicementioning

confidence: 99%