's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging … rates of recidivism among ex-convicts is due to selection, and not a consequence of the experience of being in prison …

recidivism. Results show that inmates with poor labour market prospects expect a significantly higher rate of future recidivism … prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime …

employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from … two main sources: the program administration and compulsory communications on employment and unemployment spells. We found …

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

arrests "in flagrante", which are less subject to differential reporting by employment status. We then evaluate the mitigating … that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon job …

where criminal activity is high and students who are highly overrepresented among criminal offenders. The nature of the … prolonged and more general education lead to a reduction in property crime, but no significant decrease in violent crime. The … opportunities and/or inclinations to commit crime …