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Zanella, Giulio - 2020

I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data from Italy and combining quasi-experimental and structural econometric methods to achieve both a credible identification and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing...

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The effect of rehabilitative punishments on juvenile crime and labor market outcomes

Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Mälkönen, Ville - 2014

characteristics of the young offenders. The juvenile punishment experiment was initially conducted in certain criminal courts only and …This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using … rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the social skills and labor market attachment of young offenders aged 15 to 17. A …

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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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The effect of sentencing reform on crime rates : evidence from California's proposition 47

Domínguez, Patricio; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2019

We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the voters in November 2014, the proposition redefined many less serious property and drug offenses that in the past could be charged as either a felony or misdemeanor to straight...

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Peer effects in prison

Johnsen, Julian; Khoury, Laura - 2024

Peer interactions play a key role in the criminal sector due to its secrecy and lack of formal institutions. A significant part of criminal peer exposure happens in prison, directly influenced by policymakers. This paper provides a broader understanding of how peer effects shape criminal...

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Cooperation, punishment and organized crime : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Southern Italy

Nese, Annamaria; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2016

by running Prisoner's Dilemma and Third Party Punishment games on three different pools of subjects; students, 'Ordinary … game with Third Party punishment, punishing less as well as tending to punish cooperation (almost as much) as defection …

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Optimizing criminal behavior and the disutility of prison

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2017

We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...

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Incarceration and crime : evidence from California's public safety realignment reform

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2013

We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large...

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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

The study investigates whether and how strong prison conditions contribute to the perceived propensity to recidivate after controlling for personal characteristics and criminal background. In order to combine different sources of information on personal characteristics of prison inmates and...

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Crime, the criminal justice system, and socioeconomic inequality

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2016

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration rates as well as community correctional populations have increased greatly since the mid-1970s. Both of these developments have disproportionately impacted poor and minority...

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