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We examine ten cohorts of male eighth graders in public schools in Chicago, IL: 1995-2004. We find that composite measures of math achievement, reading achievement, and neighborhood SES during elementary school are strong predictors of future felony arraignment and incarceration, even among...
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to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …
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We examine 70,581 felony court cases filed in Chicago, IL, from 1990-2007. We exploit case randomization to assess the impact of judge assignment and sentencing decisions on the arrival of new charges. We find that, in marginal cases, incarceration creates large and lasting reductions in...
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There is a well-established negative gradient between economic status and crime, but its underlying causal mechanisms … effect of financial windfalls on player's own crime and their children's delinquency. We … estimates allow us to rule out effects one fifth as large as the cross-sectional gradient between income and crime. We also …
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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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reduced form model is estimated where the probability of being a victim of violent crime is determined by the price of alcohol … all three types of violent crime in models where country fixed effects are not included. Results from models which include …
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African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV …) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which …
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This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … investigate whether overall crime rates differed and whether crime was lower on women-only days. We compare crime in Bogota to … are that crime rates are higher during the gender-based lockdown policy and that this is driven by more crime involving …
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