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Ben K Grunwald

Professor of Law
School of Law
Office 4012 Duke Law School, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Box 90362 Ofc 4012, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Private Security and Public Police

Journal Article Journal of Empirical Legal Studies · 2024 Link to item Cite

Racial Bias in Criminal Records

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · 2023 Link to item Cite

Data-Driven Decarceration

Other Inquest · 2023 Cite

Toward an Optimal Decarceration Strategy

Journal Article Stanford Law & Policy Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Police Agencies on Facebook Overreport on Black Suspects

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 Link to item Cite

Distinguishing Plea Discounts and Trial Penalties

Journal Article Georgia State University Law Review · 2021 Cite

The Wandering Officer

Journal Article Yale Law Journal · 2020 Link to item Cite

The End of Intuition-Based High-Crime Areas

Journal Article California Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

Applying Sentinel Event Reviews to Policing

Journal Article Criminology & Public Policy · 2019 Link to item Cite

Strategic Publication

Journal Article Tulane Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

The Fragile Promise of Open-File Discovery

Journal Article Connecticut Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later

Journal Article Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology · 2017 Link to item Cite

Effect of Private Police Services on Crime: A Geographic Regression Discontinuity Design

Journal Article Journal of the Royal Statistical Society:Series A · 2016 Link to item Cite

Suboptimal Social Science and Judicial Precedent

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

Privatization of Public Safety in Urban Neighborhoods

Journal Article Law & Society Review · 2013 Link to item Cite