RT Article
T1 Unique New York?: theorizing the impact of resources on the quality of defense representation in a deviant state
JF Criminal justice policy review
VO 31
IS 6
SP 962
OP 986
A1 Davies, Andrew L. B.
A2 Lopes, Giza
A2 Clark, Alyssa
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1768143625
AB Litigation in New York State has resulted in the allocation of substantial new funding to limit indigent defense caseloads and improve representation provided to criminal defendants. Funding injections have rarely been studied in defense, however, so it is not clear what will be the effects of the new resources. Defense critics expect their impact to be transformative, but empirical scholarship is more pessimistic. We sort between these perspectives using exploratory interviews with the individuals most critical to the planned reforms: executive-level chief public defenders. Conceptualizing defense service quality in terms of “public value,” we find points of deviation from both the optimistic and pessimistic accounts. New York is a “deviant case,” we argue, which can be used to break new theoretical and empirical ground around the question of how resources impact defense service quality.
K1 Criminal Court
K1 crimal justice policy
K1 Program Evaluation
K1 Research and policy
DO /10.1177/0887403419890650