2023
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/463bk
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Prosecution for Services: How the Blending of Coercion and Care Shapes Prosecutors’ Decisions

Abstract: Scholarship at the intersection of punishment and welfare has revealed how the penal and welfare systems in the United States are increasingly intertwined. However, there has been little empirical investigation into how this entangling of coercion and support shapes the decisions of the people working within the criminal legal system. This article examines how prosecutors, actors with enormous discretion, consider the supportive services within the criminal legal system in their decision-making. Drawing on dat… Show more

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