Data for: Identity in Court Decision-Making

Information was collected from the Stockholm court archive by photocopying the trial and sentencing protocols, and compiled into a data set holding information about the defendant, judge, lay judges and the prosecutor, as well as criminal charges, sentencing outcomes and additional trial information.

Note that all individual identifiers are pseudonymized. Access to the data set (in .dta or .csv format) is subject to application, this folder contains a detailed description of it and a variable list. The data set was created for a research project on the effect of judge and other judicial decision-makers' background, in terms of demographics and socioeconomic conditions, on court sentencing outcomes.