Socially optimal criminal court waiting times : a partial investigation Torre, Andrew 2008, Socially optimal criminal court waiting times : a partial investigation, Australian economic papers, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 115-128, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8454.2008.00335.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Socially optimal criminal court waiting times : a partial investigation Author(s) Torre, Andrew orcid.org/0000-0002-8701-5840 Journal name Australian economic papers Volume number 47 Issue number 1 Start page 115 End page 128 Total pages 14 Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Place of publication Carlton, Vic. Publication date 2008-03 ISSN 0004-900X 1467-8454 Summary Criminal courts provide a forum for conducting prosecutions with a guilty plea or a trial. Since queues are used as the basis for rationing scarce court facilities delays are inevitable, however courts are invariably criticised as being inefficient as a consequence. This focus on court delay defined as the time elapsing between the listing of the case in the court list and its final disposition is misleading. Rather, attention should be drawn to the considerably longer period between the initiation of proceedings and the conclusion of the case. In the case of defendants not granted bail, this pre-trial delay confers both costs and benefits on society and this observation can be used to ascertain socially optimal pre-trial waits. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8454.2008.00335.x Field of Research 140299 Applied Economics not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2009, University of Adelaide and Flinders University and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30017090 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Link to Related Work Socially optimal criminal court waiting times : a partial investigation (deposited 24-05-2022) Socially optimal criminal court waiting times: a partial investigation Report (deposited 19-12-2017)   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:49:35 EST Mon, 07 Dec 2009, 10:31:20 EST Mon, 07 Dec 2009, 10:34:23 EST Thu, 23 Sep 2010, 11:25:35 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 11:28:43 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 16:04:20 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 862 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:49:35 EST