Trends in Punitive Damages: Preliminary Data from California January 1, 1995
This paper presents preliminary results of an Institute for Civil Justice analysis of trends in punitive damage awards.
Publications on Courts and Corrections
1995
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Trends in Punitive Damages: Preliminary Data from Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California January 1, 1995
This paper presents the preliminary results of the analyses of trends in punitive damage awards in these state trial court jurisdictions.
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Improving Jury Comprehension in Criminal and Civil Trials January 1, 1995
This publication contains the written statement of Robert MacCoun submitted on July 27, 1995, to the Judiciary Committee of the California State Senate.
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Trends in Patent Litigation: The Apparent Influence of Strengthened Patents Attributable to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit January 1, 1995
Trends in patent litigation : the apparent influence of strengthened patents attributable to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
1994
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California's New Three-Strikes Law: Benefits, Costs, and Alternatives January 1, 1994
How much crime reduction can they expect from the three-strikes law? And how much will it cost? What about the alternatives? And where will the money come from?
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Three Strikes and You’re Out: Estimated Benefits and Costs of California’s New Mandatory-Sentencing Law January 1, 1994
The authors report on the benefits and costs of California's new mandatory-sentencing law, which provides for progressively longer sentences with an increasing number of prior convictions for serious felonies.
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Inside the Black Box: What Empirical Research Tells Us about Decisionmaking by Civil Juries January 1, 1994
This article discusses the potential contribution to the policymaking process of systematic empirical research on the behavior of civil juries.
1993
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Chronic Juvenile Offenders: Final Results from the Skillman Aftercare Experiment January 1, 1993
A classical experimental design was used to determine whether delinquents assigned to an experimental intensive aftercare program implemented in two sites had lower relapse and recidivism rates and a better readjustment to the community.
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Is There a Deep-Pocket Bias in the Tort System? The Concern over Biases Against Deep-Pocket Defendants January 1, 1993
There is a wide-spread perception that America's tort system is biased against so-called deep-pocket defendants. This paper summarizes what we know and don't know about deep-pocket biases.
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How to improve civil justice policy January 1, 1993
1990
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Civil Delay in Federal Courts: Is It Getting Worse? January 1, 1990
This research brief describes an analysis of trends in civil caseloads, time to disposition, and patterns of case resolution in the federal district court system.
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Strategies for Reducing Civil Delay in Los Angeles Superior Court: Technical Appendixes January 1, 1990
Contains the technical appendixes to R-3762, which presents findings about the causes of civil case delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court and proposes strategies for attacking the problem.
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Statistical Overview of Civil Litigation in the Federal Courts January 1, 1990
Presents a longitudinal study of filing patterns in federal district courts and of the time taken to dispose of cases in those courts.
1989
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Experimental Research on Jury Decision-Making January 1, 1989
Jury verdicts directly affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States every year and serve a bellwether function in plea bargaining and settlement negotiations.
1987
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Getting Inside the Black Box: Toward A Better Understanding of Civil Jury Behavior January 1, 1987
Advocates the use of systematic empirical research on civil jury behavior as an important tool in the policymaking process. The author discusses the methods that have been used for studying jury behavior,...
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Punitive Damages: Empirical Findings January 1, 1987
Based on cases that reached jury verdict in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, from 1960 to 1984, this report presents analytically derived answers to questions surrounding the award of punitive damages.
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Opening the Black Box of Civil Jury Behavior: A Summary of Research Results, 1987 January 1, 1987
Drawing on social and cognitive psychology and on criminal jury research, Robert MacCoun outlines approaches that can provide data essential to legislative and judicial policymakers who seek to understand how civil juries arrive at decisions.
1986
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A Summary of Research Results: Trends and Patterns in Civil Jury Verdicts January 1, 1986
This paper draws on the author's analysis of civil jury verdicts rendered between 1960 and 1979 in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California.
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Changes in the tort system: helping inform the policy debate January 1, 1986
This paper is extracted from the Director's Report in the Institute for Civil Justice's (ICJ) Report on the First Six Program Years, April 1980-March 1986. It reviews findings of the ICJ's research on the civil justice system regarding (1) civil jury...
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Judging consent January 1, 1986
This paper was originally presented at a symposium on consent decrees, and appeared in the University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 1987. It explores the growing interest in consent degrees, by which lawsuits are resolved with the issuance of a judgme...
1985
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Punitive Damages: Preliminary Empirical Findings January 1, 1985
Presents preliminary information on punitive damages awarded between 1959 and 1984 by juries in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco County, California.
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Court-Annexed Arbitration: The National Picture January 1, 1985
Reports the findings of a national survey to determine the current status of court-annexed arbitration among state and federal trial courts, and is an update of a similar survey conducted by The Institute for Civil Justice in 1980, and published as R2732
1984
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California Enacts Prejudgment Interest: A Case Study of Legislative Action January 1, 1984
Presents a case study of one of the most controversial actions of the 1981-1982 California legislative sessions: passage of mandatory prejudgment interest on personal injury awards (SB 203).
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Court-annexed arbitration in the state trial court system January 1, 1984
Research effort has been directed toward investigating the use of court-annexed arbitration in the state trial courts, and evaluating the effectiveness of this type of arbitration for managing the civil caseload and alleviating the burdens that the l...