's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … further criminal behavior. For previously employed individuals, while there is no effect on recidivism, there is a lasting … panel dataset containing the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of the entire population, and exploit the random …

characteristics of the young offenders. The juvenile punishment experiment was initially conducted in certain criminal courts only and …

record, on the future criminal and labor market outcomes of first-time felony drug offenders. To accomplish this, we exploit … community impact of its criminal justice system. …

. Using longitudinal data for Norway, we find that imprisonment has no effect on fathers' recidivism but reduces their … employment by 20 percentage points. We find no evidence that paternal incarceration affects a child's criminal activity or school …

understanding of how peer effects shape criminal behavior among prison inmates, focusing on co-inmate impacts on recidivism and … experienced co-inmates increases recidivism. Second, exposure to "top criminals" (i.e. those with extreme levels of criminal … experience) plays a distinctive role in shaping these recidivism patterns. Third, inmates form lasting criminal networks, as …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … individuals have a higher incentive to recidivate experienced higher recidivism. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent …

after controlling for personal characteristics and criminal background. In order to combine different sources of information … show a reduced likelihood of recidivism. …

recidivism. This result is entirely driven by inmates whose risk and needs were evaluated by a widely used assessment tool … identifying their criminogenic needs. For this group, we estimate that participation in these programs reduces recidivism by about …