Judges fasting for Ramadan are more lenient: study NatureHumBehav
effect", a 2011 study found that judges in Israel were more likely to deny criminals parole before they ate lunch than afterwards.
To find out, Mehmood and two other economic researchers sifted through a huge amount of criminal sentencing data, including roughly half a million cases and 10,000 judges, covering a 50-year period in India and Pakistan, two of the top three countries with the largest Muslim populations.
The rate of recidivism was generally slightly lower—including for defendants of violent crimes such as armed robbery and murder."The probability that the initial verdict was overturned was also lower," said Avner Seror, a study co-author and economist at France's Aix-Marseille University." because it offers numerous avenues for comparison, from being held on different dates every year to the duration of fasting differing depending on when the sun rises and sets.
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