Pichler, Stefan; Römer, Daniel - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2011
In this paper, we analyze the effect of the criminal justice system on juvenile recidivism. Using a unique sample of … German inmates, we are able to disentangle the selection into criminal and juvenile law from the subsequent recidivism … recidivism in a bivariate probit model. In a second step, we use a discontinuity in law assignment created by German legislation …