Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach Robert Witt and Ann Dryden Witte NBER … interest in discerning the impact of this costly increase on crime rates. Estimates of impact vary. We obtain new estimates of … higher levels of imprisonment and increases in labor force participation of women are related to significantly higher crime …

assessing the time series evidence, comparing the history of executions and homicides in the United States and Canada, and …

was not offered over time. We find that eligibility for Pathways reduces the likelihood of being charged with a crime by …

This paper presents evidence on the relation among incarceration, crime, and the economic incentives to crime, ranging … from unemployment to income inequality. It makes three points: 1) The U.S. has incarcerated an extraordinarily high … have reduced the rate of crime, through the incapacitation of criminals and through the deterrent effect of potential …

the unemployment rate and the crime rate is explicitly derived. The solution of the proposed model shows the concurrent … counter-cyclical movements of the unemployment and crime rates, which is found to be consistent with the U.S. time series data … rate triggers a subsequent increase in the crime rate. Further, we find that the unemployment rate is statistically …

Few empirical studies of the economics of crime have doubted the deterrent effects of the legal sanctions on crime …. Those studies, however, have not established a definitive understanding of the effects of labor market conditions on crime …. In this paper, we examine the impact of labor market conditions, represented by either male civilian unemployment or …