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Estimating long-run incarceration rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States
Leigh, Andrew - 2020
Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...
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The second convict age : explaining the return of mass imprisonment in Australia
Leigh, Andrew - 2020
adults (221 prisoners per 100,000 adults). Recalculating Indigenous incarceration rates so that they are comparable over a … Indigenous adults are incarcerated (2481 prisoners per 100,000 adults), a higher share than among African-Americans. The recent … increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …
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Living standards in black and white : evidence from the heights of Ohio prison inmates, 1829 - 1913
Carson, Scott Alan (contributor);  … - 2006
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … cheating correlates with inmates' offenses against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal …
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Nineteenth century US African-American and white female statures : insight from US prison records
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of …
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Racial differences in body-mass indices for men imprisoned in 19th century US prisons : a multinomial approach
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th …
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Voters' response to public policies : evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017 - First Version: November 2016
We study voters' response to public policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon that created idiosyncratic incentives to recidivate across released individuals and municipalities. We show that municipalities where resident pardoned individuals had a...
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The dead-anyway effect revis(it)ed
Breyer, Friedrich; Felder, Stefan - 2002
In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called dead-anyway effect discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality risk increases with the initial level of risk. Their...
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Health during industrialization : evidence from the 19th century Pennsylvania state prison system
Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007
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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure
Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015
Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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