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Jan 2021
- Parsing Science
- Economics, Law, Sociology
- economics, law, inquisitorial criminal procedure, Latin America, Columbia, adversarial model, regression analysis, pre-trial detention, criminal reform, procedural law, inmates, detainees, Latin American Criminal Procedure Revolution, difference-indifference, event study, exogenous variation
What effect did copying the U.S.'s legal system have on Colombia's incarceration system? In episode 92, Ángela Zorro Medina from the University of Chicago discussed her research into how transitioning to an adversarial model of criminal procedure – one controlled by the prosecutor and defense, rat...