Ben Grunwald

Works in Progress

Racial Bias in Criminal Records (November 7, 2022)

Articles & Essays

Police Agencies on Facebook Overreport on Black Suspects , 119 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, article e2203089119, 1-8 (2022) (with others)
Toward an Optimal Decarceration Strategy, 33 Stanford Law & Policy Review 1-78 (2022)
Distinguishing Plea Discounts and Trial Penalties, 37 Georgia State University Law Review 261-303 (2021)
The Wandering Officer, 129 Yale Law Journal 1676-1782 (2020) (with John Rappaport)
Applying Sentinel Event Reviews to Policing, 18 Criminology & Public Policy 705-730 (2019) (with John F. Hollway)
The End of Intuition-Based High-Crime Areas, 107 California Law Review 345-404 (2019) (with Jeffrey Fagan)
Strategic Publication, 92 Tulane Law Review 745-776 (2018)
Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later, 107 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 131-159 (2017) (with Andrew V. Papachristos)
The Fragile Promise of Open-File Discovery, 49 Connecticut Law Review 771-836 (2017)
Effect of Private Police Services on Crime: A Geographic Regression Discontinuity Design, 179 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society:Series A 831-846 (2016) (with John M. MacDonald & Jonathan Klick)
Decriminalizing Delinquency: The Effect of Raising the Age of Majority on Juvenile Recidivism, 44 Journal of Legal Studies 361-388 (2015) (with Charles Loeffler)
Processed as an Adult: A Regression Discontinuity Estimate of the Crime Effects of Charging Juveniles as Adults, 52 Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency 890-922 (2015) (with Charles Loeffler)
Questioning Blackmun's Thesis: Does Uniformity in Sentencing Entail Unfairness?, 49 Law & Society Review 499-534 (2015)
Privatization of Public Safety in Urban Neighborhoods, 47 Law & Society Review 621-652 (2013) (with others)
Propensity Score Matching, in Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice 4047-4062 (Gerben Bruinsma & David Weisburd eds., 2013) (with John MacDonald)
Suboptimal Social Science and Judicial Precedent, 161 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1409-1443 (2013)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Data-Driven Decarceration, Inquest (January 12, 2023)
It Will Take More Than the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act To Fix Our Broken System, Washington Post (February 5, 2021) (with John Rappaport)

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Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary