This week’s top 5 crim papers, with number of recent downloads from SSRN, are:

(1) 168 Victims, Survivors and the Decisions to Seek and Impose Death
Wayne A. Logan,
William Mitchell College of Law,
Date posted to database: May 2, 2005
Last Revised: May 6, 2005
(2) 161 Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case
Guido Alessandro Ferrarini, Paolo Giudici,
Università degli Studi di Genova – Law School, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano – School of Economics,
Date posted to database: May 27, 2005
Last Revised: June 9, 2005
(3) 147 Improving Prosecutorial Decision Making: Some Lessons of Cognitive Science
Alafair S. Burke,
Hofstra University – School of Law,
Date posted to database: April 26, 2005
Last Revised: May 1, 2005
(4) 132 Law and Emotion: A Proposed Taxonomy of an Emerging Field
Terry A. Maroney,
New York University – School of Law,
Date posted to database: May 20, 2005
Last Revised: June 15, 2005
(5) 114 Of God’s Mercy and the Four Biblical Methods of Capital Punishment: Stoning, Burning, Beheading, and Strangulation
Irene Merker Rosenberg, Yale L. Rosenberg,
University of Houston – Law Center, University of Houston – Law Center,
Date posted to database: January 5, 2005
Last Revised: April 27, 2005