Jacqueline Lee, an assistant professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Service, published an article in the April 1 edition of the journal Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society.
Using new data on felony cocaine cases from an urban county in a Southern state, “Evidence, Arrest Circumstances, and Felony Cocaine Case Processing” examines how physical evidence and arrest circumstances affect three stages of case processing: initial charge type, charge reduction and sentence length.