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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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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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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 adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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

by an intriguing puzzle – the large gap between the theory and empirical work. While the hypothesis that growing labor … consistent evidence in support of this theory. The primary contribution of this chapter is to document how recent research … – primarily since the late 1990s – makes substantial progress in resolving this disconnect between the theory and empirics. To …

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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...

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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large...

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