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Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
empirical investigation of their impact on crime and victimization. In this paper, we use monthly data from the U.S. Vital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950837
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The Effect of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Use on Crime: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions and Health Insurance Parity Mandates
Wen, Hefei; Hockenberry, Jason M.; Cummings, Janet R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
crime rates, based on county-level panels of SUD treatment and crime data between 2001 and 2008 across the United States. To … address the potential endogeneity of the SUD treatment rate with respect to crime rate, we exploit the exogenous variation in … the SUD treatment rate at an average cost of $1.6 billion yields a crime reduction benefit of $2.5 billion to $4.8 billion …
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The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law %u2013 the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. The theoretical core of our...
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Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
Piehl, Anne Morrison; Bushway, Shawn D.; Owens, Emily G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
There is a debate about whether advisory non-binding sentencing guidelines affect the sentences outcomes of individuals convicted in jurisdictions with this sentencing framework. Identifying the impact of sentencing guidelines is a difficult empirical problem because court actors may have...
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On the Optimal Burden of Proof
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The burden of proof is a central feature of adjudication, and analogues exist in many other settings. It constitutes an important but largely unappreciated policy instrument that interacts with the level of enforcement effort and magnitude of sanctions in controlling harmful activity. Models are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421980
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Criminal Prosecution and HIV-related Risky Behavior
Sood, Neeraj; Delavande, Adeline; Goldman, Dana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We evaluate the consequences of prosecuting HIV+ people who expose others to the risk of infection. We show that the effect of aggressive prosecutions on the spread of HIV is a priori ambiguous. Aggressive prosecutions tax risky behavior and thus deter unsafe sex and limit the number of sexual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718392
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Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Kilmer, Beau - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee … Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use … at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent, property and income-producing crime even after accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828440
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A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation
Gan, Li; Williams, Roberton C. Williams III; Wiseman, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of … hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert … more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate crime. These differences also have previously unrecognized effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828715
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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania
Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...
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Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"
Di Tella, Rafael; Dubra, Juan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know from previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088694