Ronald F Wright
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1493387 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronald F Wright |
| PRENOMES | Ronald F |
| SOBRENOME | Wright |
| ASSINATURA | WRIGHT R F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-3591-9521 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Defense Use of Digital Discovery in Criminal Cases
Recent criminal court reforms have required prosecutors to provide defense attorneys with broader and earlier discovery of evidence. For these discovery reforms to fulfill their aims of improved fairness and efficiency, defense attorneys must take advantage of the evidence disclosed by the prosecution. Prior studies suggest, however, that a range of factors, including low pay and high caseloads, impede effective defense representation in general.…
Breaking Barriers
Although state prosecutors play a critically important role in the U.S. criminal justice system, these elections have received limited scholarly attention. Prosecutor elections historically have been dominated by men but have seen growing numbers of women candidates. Using data from elections between 2012 and 2020 in the 200 most populous prosecutorial districts, we assess the likelihood of a woman candidate running for the office and her chances…
The Increasing Nationalization of Local Elections
To what extent are local races across the country being increasingly driven by politics at the national level? In this article, we examine the nationalization of elections for state executive branches' primary front line legal actors in the criminal courts—local prosecutors. We seek to better understand the factors influencing prosecutor election outcomes and why these types of elections have become more nationalized in recent years. More specifi…
Expanded Criminal Defense Lawyering
This review collects and critiques the academic literature on criminal defense lawyering, with an emphasis on empirical work. Research on criminal defense attorneys in the United States has traditionally emphasized scarcity of resources: too many people facing criminal charges who are “too poor to pay” for counsel and not enough funding to pay for the constitutionally mandated lawyers. Scholars have focused on the capacity of different delivery s…
Models of Prosecutor-Led Diversion Programs in the United States and Beyond
Diversion programs allow criminal justice actors to send defendants out of the court system, compelling them instead to attend treatment programs, participate in educational opportunities, and/or perform community service. These programs exist for both adult and juvenile offenders. Although some diversion programs are administered within the court system, prosecutors design and operate a substantial number of these programs themselves. Because th…
Coproduced Prosecution
Máximo Langer and David Sklansky recently gathered some accomplished legal scholars to discuss a topic that would have made no sense a generation ago; these days, that same topic sits at the center of criminal justice reform in the United States. The topic? The variety of ways in which legal systems allow popular input into the work of prosecutors. The final product of that scholarly conversation is a rich collection of ten chapters, framed by an…
Reinventing American Prosecution Systems
American prosecutors operate within legal and practical limits, just like any other public officials within a democratic form of government. Those limits are more anemic for prosecutors than for other criminal justice officials; they have also become less effective over time. The prosecutorial function can be reimagined with more effective legal, institutional, and internal cultural constraints that would produce responsive prosecutorial services…
Prosecutor Risk, Maturation, and Wrongful Conviction Practice
In this article we rethink the connection between prosecutorial experience and conviction psychology that undergirds much of the academic literature about wrongful convictions. The conviction psychology account of prosecutorial behavior asserts that prosecutorial susceptibility to cognitive biases deepens over time, thereby increasing the risk that prosecutors will become involved in wrongful convictions the longer they stay in the profession. Ou…
Persistent Localism in the Prosecutor Services of North Carolina
The distinct flavor of each local prosecutor’s office persists in North Carolina despite unusually strong efforts to centralize and unify the prosecution function across the entire state. The 44 offices share a common legal framework, including structured sentencing rules that channel the available punishments in predictable directions. Almost all their operating funds derive from the state rather than from the local level of government. The ties…
Blakely and the Centralizers in North Carolina
Counting the Cost of Sentencing in North Carolina, 1980-2000
North Carolina's Fair Sentencing Act of 1979 emphasized the need to reduce sentence disparities. Because the statute lacked any enforcement mechanism, judges reverted to earlier practices within five years. In the Structured Sentencing Act of 1993, legislators put concerns about disparity to the side and concentrated on changing the state's prison use priorities. The new law lengthened prison terms for violent crimes and assigned more property of…
The Screening/Bargaining Tradeoff
IN TRO D UCT ION 30 I. A FALSE DICHOTOMY: PLEA BARGAINING VERSUS TRIALS 36 A. The Traditional Plea Bargain/Trial Tradeoff 37 B. Traditional Alternatives to Plea Bargaining 40 1. Short trials 42 2. Plea bans 43 II. THE SCREENING ALTERNATIVE 48
Counting Cases About Milk, Our "Most Nearly Perfect" Food, 1860-1940
At the turn of the 20th century, as more people in the United States started moving to urban areas, the quality of the milk supply became one of the preeminent public health challenges of the day and a centerpiece of the Progressive agenda. Governments passed ordinances and statutes to safeguard the milk supply and sanctioned violators of these laws. This study collects the published cases where judges were asked to enforce these health regulatio…
Three Strikes Legislation and Sentencing Commission Objectives
Between 1993 and 1997, state legislatures across the country passed legislation popularly known as “three strikes and you’re out” laws. These laws appeared at a time when sentencing commissions existed in many states, and the commissions were involved in the legislative debates leading to the votes on three strikes laws. Thus, the passage of three strikes laws can shed light on one type of interaction between sentencing commissions and legislatur…
Stolen Continents
The Inca Harp
Counting the Cost of Sentencing in North Carolina, 1980-2000
North Carolina's Fair Sentencing Act of 1979 emphasized the need to reduce sentence disparities. Because the statute lacked any enforcement mechanism, judges reverted to earlier practices within five years. In the Structured Sentencing Act of 1993, legislators put concerns about disparity to the side and concentrated on changing the state's prison use priorities. The new law lengthened prison terms for violent crimes and assigned more property of…
Models of Prosecutor-Led Diversion Programs in the United States and Beyond
Diversion programs allow criminal justice actors to send defendants out of the court system, compelling them instead to attend treatment programs, participate in educational opportunities, and/or perform community service. These programs exist for both adult and juvenile offenders. Although some diversion programs are administered within the court system, prosecutors design and operate a substantial number of these programs themselves. Because th…
The Screening/Bargaining Tradeoff
IN TRO D UCT ION 30 I. A FALSE DICHOTOMY: PLEA BARGAINING VERSUS TRIALS 36 A. The Traditional Plea Bargain/Trial Tradeoff 37 B. Traditional Alternatives to Plea Bargaining 40 1. Short trials 42 2. Plea bans 43 II. THE SCREENING ALTERNATIVE 48
Counting Cases About Milk, Our "Most Nearly Perfect" Food, 1860-1940
At the turn of the 20th century, as more people in the United States started moving to urban areas, the quality of the milk supply became one of the preeminent public health challenges of the day and a centerpiece of the Progressive agenda. Governments passed ordinances and statutes to safeguard the milk supply and sanctioned violators of these laws. This study collects the published cases where judges were asked to enforce these health regulatio…
Three Strikes Legislation and Sentencing Commission Objectives
Between 1993 and 1997, state legislatures across the country passed legislation popularly known as “three strikes and you’re out” laws. These laws appeared at a time when sentencing commissions existed in many states, and the commissions were involved in the legislative debates leading to the votes on three strikes laws. Thus, the passage of three strikes laws can shed light on one type of interaction between sentencing commissions and legislatur…
Stolen Continents
The Increasing Nationalization of Local Elections
To what extent are local races across the country being increasingly driven by politics at the national level? In this article, we examine the nationalization of elections for state executive branches' primary front line legal actors in the criminal courts—local prosecutors. We seek to better understand the factors influencing prosecutor election outcomes and why these types of elections have become more nationalized in recent years. More specifi…
Prosecutor Risk, Maturation, and Wrongful Conviction Practice
In this article we rethink the connection between prosecutorial experience and conviction psychology that undergirds much of the academic literature about wrongful convictions. The conviction psychology account of prosecutorial behavior asserts that prosecutorial susceptibility to cognitive biases deepens over time, thereby increasing the risk that prosecutors will become involved in wrongful convictions the longer they stay in the profession. Ou…
Persistent Localism in the Prosecutor Services of North Carolina
The distinct flavor of each local prosecutor’s office persists in North Carolina despite unusually strong efforts to centralize and unify the prosecution function across the entire state. The 44 offices share a common legal framework, including structured sentencing rules that channel the available punishments in predictable directions. Almost all their operating funds derive from the state rather than from the local level of government. The ties…
Blakely and the Centralizers in North Carolina
The Inca Harp
Stolen Continents
Three Strikes Legislation and Sentencing Commission Objectives
Between 1993 and 1997, state legislatures across the country passed legislation popularly known as “three strikes and you’re out” laws. These laws appeared at a time when sentencing commissions existed in many states, and the commissions were involved in the legislative debates leading to the votes on three strikes laws. Thus, the passage of three strikes laws can shed light on one type of interaction between sentencing commissions and legislatur…
Counting the Cost of Sentencing in North Carolina, 1980-2000
North Carolina's Fair Sentencing Act of 1979 emphasized the need to reduce sentence disparities. Because the statute lacked any enforcement mechanism, judges reverted to earlier practices within five years. In the Structured Sentencing Act of 1993, legislators put concerns about disparity to the side and concentrated on changing the state's prison use priorities. The new law lengthened prison terms for violent crimes and assigned more property of…
The Screening/Bargaining Tradeoff
IN TRO D UCT ION 30 I. A FALSE DICHOTOMY: PLEA BARGAINING VERSUS TRIALS 36 A. The Traditional Plea Bargain/Trial Tradeoff 37 B. Traditional Alternatives to Plea Bargaining 40 1. Short trials 42 2. Plea bans 43 II. THE SCREENING ALTERNATIVE 48
Counting Cases About Milk, Our "Most Nearly Perfect" Food, 1860-1940
At the turn of the 20th century, as more people in the United States started moving to urban areas, the quality of the milk supply became one of the preeminent public health challenges of the day and a centerpiece of the Progressive agenda. Governments passed ordinances and statutes to safeguard the milk supply and sanctioned violators of these laws. This study collects the published cases where judges were asked to enforce these health regulatio…
Blakely and the Centralizers in North Carolina
Persistent Localism in the Prosecutor Services of North Carolina
The distinct flavor of each local prosecutor’s office persists in North Carolina despite unusually strong efforts to centralize and unify the prosecution function across the entire state. The 44 offices share a common legal framework, including structured sentencing rules that channel the available punishments in predictable directions. Almost all their operating funds derive from the state rather than from the local level of government. The ties…
Prosecutor Risk, Maturation, and Wrongful Conviction Practice
In this article we rethink the connection between prosecutorial experience and conviction psychology that undergirds much of the academic literature about wrongful convictions. The conviction psychology account of prosecutorial behavior asserts that prosecutorial susceptibility to cognitive biases deepens over time, thereby increasing the risk that prosecutors will become involved in wrongful convictions the longer they stay in the profession. Ou…
Reinventing American Prosecution Systems
American prosecutors operate within legal and practical limits, just like any other public officials within a democratic form of government. Those limits are more anemic for prosecutors than for other criminal justice officials; they have also become less effective over time. The prosecutorial function can be reimagined with more effective legal, institutional, and internal cultural constraints that would produce responsive prosecutorial services…
Coproduced Prosecution
Máximo Langer and David Sklansky recently gathered some accomplished legal scholars to discuss a topic that would have made no sense a generation ago; these days, that same topic sits at the center of criminal justice reform in the United States. The topic? The variety of ways in which legal systems allow popular input into the work of prosecutors. The final product of that scholarly conversation is a rich collection of ten chapters, framed by an…
Models of Prosecutor-Led Diversion Programs in the United States and Beyond
Diversion programs allow criminal justice actors to send defendants out of the court system, compelling them instead to attend treatment programs, participate in educational opportunities, and/or perform community service. These programs exist for both adult and juvenile offenders. Although some diversion programs are administered within the court system, prosecutors design and operate a substantial number of these programs themselves. Because th…
Expanded Criminal Defense Lawyering
This review collects and critiques the academic literature on criminal defense lawyering, with an emphasis on empirical work. Research on criminal defense attorneys in the United States has traditionally emphasized scarcity of resources: too many people facing criminal charges who are “too poor to pay” for counsel and not enough funding to pay for the constitutionally mandated lawyers. Scholars have focused on the capacity of different delivery s…
The Increasing Nationalization of Local Elections
To what extent are local races across the country being increasingly driven by politics at the national level? In this article, we examine the nationalization of elections for state executive branches' primary front line legal actors in the criminal courts—local prosecutors. We seek to better understand the factors influencing prosecutor election outcomes and why these types of elections have become more nationalized in recent years. More specifi…
Defense Use of Digital Discovery in Criminal Cases
Recent criminal court reforms have required prosecutors to provide defense attorneys with broader and earlier discovery of evidence. For these discovery reforms to fulfill their aims of improved fairness and efficiency, defense attorneys must take advantage of the evidence disclosed by the prosecution. Prior studies suggest, however, that a range of factors, including low pay and high caseloads, impede effective defense representation in general.…
Breaking Barriers
Although state prosecutors play a critically important role in the U.S. criminal justice system, these elections have received limited scholarly attention. Prosecutor elections historically have been dominated by men but have seen growing numbers of women candidates. Using data from elections between 2012 and 2020 in the 200 most populous prosecutorial districts, we assess the likelihood of a woman candidate running for the office and her chances…
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