Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
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Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research
No 4/2022: Identity in Court Decision-Making
Ulrika Ahrsjö (), Susan Niknami () and Mårten Palme ()
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Ulrika Ahrsjö: Department of Economics, Stockholm University, Postal: Department of Economics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Susan Niknami: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Postal: SOFI, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Mårten Palme: Department of Economics, Stockholm University, Postal: Department of Economics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: We explore the role of identity along multiple dimensions in high-stakes decisionmaking. Our data contain information about demographic and socioeconomic indicators for randomly assigned jurors and defendants in a Swedish court. Our results show that defendants are 15 percent less likely to get a prison sentence if they and the jurors belong to the same identity-forming groups. Socioeconomic background and demographic attributes are at least as important, and combining several identities produces stronger effects.
Keywords: Crime
Language: English
28 pages, July 1, 2022
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