Legal scholars have long studied why laws are implemented differently across local court
contexts. Key to understanding this localized variation is understanding how new laws are …

Victims play a central role in criminal case processing, but research suggests many victims
do not report crimes to police or cooperate in a police investigation. This study extends the …

Monetary sanctions are a ubiquitous part of court systems. Previous studies have focused
largely on these sanctions at the state level or solely on large urban jurisdictions. However, …

This study extends research on cohort effects and crime by considering how bifurcated
population dynamics and institutional constraints explain variation in homicide rates across racial …

There is considerable research on the efficacy of sex offense registries, but less is known
about individual compliance with registration. Recent research and subsequent policy have …

Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

Aim To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and
species richness across forest biomes. Location Global. Time period Early 21st century. Major …

In the context of ongoing climatic warming, certain landscapes could be near a tipping point
where relatively small changes to their fire regimes or their postfire forest recovery dynamics …

The impacts of climatic changes on forests may appear gradually on time scales of years to
centuries due to the long generation times of trees. Consequently, current forest extent may …

Tree size shapes forest carbon dynamics and determines how trees interact with their
environment, including a changing climate. Here, we conduct the first global analysis of among‐…