Congress and Criminalization

• In Event: Social Control (Order) and Resistance: The Role of Lawyers, Norms, and Institutions

Brief Overview

We develop a measure of criminalization in federal statutes and use it to test long-standing (but as yet untested) theories of legislative criminal punitiveness, including partisan composition, electoral uncertainty, public opinion and crime rates.

Authors

• Sean Farhang, University of California-Berkeley

• Andrea Roth, University of California-Berkeley