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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
identify incapacitation from changes in deterrence. The elasticity of total crime with respect to incapacitation is between -20 …We estimate the "incapacitation effect" on crime using variation in Italian prison population driven by eight … simultaneity of crime and prisoners as in Levitt (1996) and, in addition, use the national character of the pardons to separately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649824
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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
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762061
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Prison Conditions and Recidivism
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762173
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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
recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703778
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Theft and Deterrence
Harbaugh, William T.; Mocan, Naci; Visser, Michael S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
crime, and the penalty and probability of detection. We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144854
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156467
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Certainty and Severity of Sanctions in Classical and Behavioral Models of Deterrence: A Survey
Entorf, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical … 'rational' deterrence strategies in subcultural societies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279359
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The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence
Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734413
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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684801
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Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
Akerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime … discount future events when balancing the immediate utility of the crime and the costs of a potential future punishment. If … various crime indicators from administrative registers spanning over 18 years. Our results show that high discount rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884153