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Crime, the criminal justice system, and socioeconomic inequality
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2016
assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … populations expanded rapidly. Hence, the growth in criminal justice populations since 1990s have exacerbated socioeconomic …
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The effect of sentencing reform on racial and ethnic disparities in involvement with the criminal justice system : the case of California's proposition 47
Lofstrom, Magnus; Martin, Brandon; Raphael, Steven - 2019
We analyze the disparate effects of a recent California sentencing reform on the arrest, booking, and incarceration rates experienced by California residents from different racial and ethnic groups. In November 2014 California voters passed state proposition 47 that redefined a series of felony...
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The effect of sentencing reform on crime rates : evidence from California's proposition 47
Domínguez, Patricio; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2019
-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little … levels that existed in 2010 prior to a wave major reforms to the state's criminal justice system. While our analysis of …
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The analysis of prison-prisoner data using cluster-sample econometrics : prison conditions and prisoners' assessments of the future
Entorf, Horst; Sattarova, Liliya - 2016
after controlling for personal characteristics and criminal background. In order to combine different sources of information …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180431
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The second convict age : explaining the return of mass imprisonment in Australia
Leigh, Andrew - 2020
Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater share of the adult population than at any point since the late nineteenth century. Much of this increase has occurred since the mid-1980s. Since 1985, the Australian incarceration...
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Early release and recidivism
Meier, Armando N.; Levav, Jonathan; Meier, Stephan - 2020
Does early release decrease or increase the probability that ex-convicts will return to prison? We exploit unique data from Israeli courts, where appearance before the judge throughout the day has an arbitrary component. We first show that judges more often deny parole requests of prisoners...
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Intergenerational effects of incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep; Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; … - 2018
employment by 20 percentage points. We find no evidence that paternal incarceration affects a child's criminal activity or school …
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Incarceration, recidivism, and employment
Bhuller, Manudeep; Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; … - 2018
's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … panel dataset containing the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of the entire population, and exploit the random … assignment of criminal cases to judges who differ systematically in their stringency in sentencing defendants to prison. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880773
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Strategies to productively reincorporate the formerly-incarcerated into communities : a review of the literature
Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2018
Two-thirds of those released from prison in the United States will be re-arrested within three years, creating an incarceration cycle that is detrimental to individuals, families, and communities. There is tremendous public interest in ending this cycle, and public policies can help or hinder...
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