Bio

Nicholas Goldrosen was most recently a postdoctoral scholar with the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing and the Criminal Justice Research Center at Penn State. His research broadly examines the exercise of discretion in the criminal legal system, with specific strands focusing on sentencing, law enforcement misconduct, prosecutorial discretion, and criminal justice reform. His work has been published in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Experimental Criminology, and Crime & Delinquency. He received his PhD and MPhil in criminology from the University of Cambridge and his B.A. from Williams College.

Publications

Goldrosen, N. (2026). Sentencing in the shadow of promotion: The impacts of circuit court nomination on federal judges. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 23(3), 359-378. https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.70034

Goldrosen, N. (2026). The interorganizational effects of reform prosecution declination policies. Justice Quarterly, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2026.2643212

Goldrosen, N., Kleiman, M., & Thomas, C. (2026). Practical remedies for inaccurate criminal justice race and ethnicity data. Federal Sentencing Reporter, 38(3), 247-254. https://doi.org/10.1215/10539867-12442806

Goldrosen, N., Smith, C.M., Ciocanel, M.-V., Santorella, R., Sen, S., Bushway, S., & Topaz, C.M. (2023). Racial disparities in criminal sentencing vary considerably across federal judges. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 179(1), 92-113.