The Indigent Defense Research Association

IDRA is pleased to announce the following Call for Papers for a volume of indigent defense research in the prestigious Justice System Journal . Please consider submitting your manuscripts, and get in touch with any questions! Call for Papers Special Issue of Justice System Journal Justice for All: Empirical Research on Indigent Defense Submission deadline extended to September 1, 2020 Justice System Journal will publish a special issue titled “Justice for All: Empirical Research on Indigent Defense.” This special issue will be guest-edited by Prof. Janet Moore of University of Cincinnati College of Law, and Dr. Andrew Davies of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at Southern Methodist University. Moore and Davies co-founded the Indigent Defense Research Association in 2015. Empirical researchers have turned their attention to indigent defense in new ways in the last several years. Their work has revealed new insights into the nature and importance of indigent defens...

Notable Recent Publications features the latest empirical research and data related to indigent defense. Should you have suggestions, ideas for work that should be included, or trouble accessing any of the articles featured, please write to albdavies@smu.edu . Articles Kelsey S. Henderson & Reveka V. Shteynberg, " Plea decision-making: the influence of attorney expertise, trustworthiness, and recommendation ." Psychology, Crime & Law. Attorney recommendations influence defendant plea decisions; and the degree of influence likely rests on the perceived trustworthiness and level of expertise of the attorney (factors of source credibility). We explored attorney source credibility factors and how these characteristics influence defendants’ plea decision-making. MTurk participants read a hypothetical plea scenario and were asked to imagine themselves as the defendant in a DWI/DUI case making a plea decision; in the scenario, we manipulated the defense atto...