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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

III, John J. Donohue; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various …

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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...

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Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides

McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...

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How Do Labor Markets Affect Crime? New Evidence on an Old Puzzle

Mustard, David B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...

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Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes

Entorf, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into …

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Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk

Salm, Martin; Vollaard, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations, we find that the longer an individual lives in a...

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The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

Heaton, Paul; Hunt, Priscillia E; MacDonald, John; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city....

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The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons

Barbarino, Alessandro; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

of the entire prison population – and happen nationwide. Exploiting this quasi-natural experiment we break the … identify incapacitation from changes in deterrence. The elasticity of total crime with respect to incapacitation is between -20 …

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The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …

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Police Disruption and Performance: Evidence from Recurrent Redeployments within a City

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its attractiveness, or because it leads to additional arrests of recurrent criminals? This paper provides evidence of a direct link between policing and arrests. During shift changes a...

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