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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
provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … since 1934. We then revisit the existing instrumental variables approaches and assess two recent state-specific execution … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762061
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814468
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Is Being 'Soft on Crime' the Solution to Rising Crime Rates? Evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Based on a theoretical framework on informal, custodial and non-custodial sentencing, the paper provides econometric tests on the effectiveness of police, public prosecution and courts. Using a unique dataset covering German states for the period 1977–2001, a comprehensive system of criminal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233837
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Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines
Sarnikar, Supriya; Sorensen, Todd; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission’s records, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762268
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008547896
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804894
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert; van der Weele, Joël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839292
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095507
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The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes
Huttunen, Kristiina; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Mälkönen, Ville - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the buyback led to a drop in the firearm suicide rates of almost 80 per cent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602718