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Does the economic model of optimal punishment explain the variation in the sentencing of murderers? As the model predicts, we find that murderers with a high expected probability of recidivism receive longer sentences. Sentences are longest in murder types where apprehension rates are low, and...
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What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and …
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Crime rates are much higher in big cities than in either small cities or rural areas, and this situation has been … from the NLSY on criminal behavior and the Uniform Crime Reports. Higher pecuniary benefits for crime in large cities can … explain approximately 27% of the effect for overall crime, though obviously much less of the urban- crime connection for non …
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The high degree of variance of crime rates across space (and across time) is one of the oldest puzzles in the social … individuals to explain the high cross- city variance of crime rates. This model provides a natural index of social interactions …
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