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Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

Sarnikar, Supriya - 2007

The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission's records, we examine...

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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence : Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory

Feess, Eberhard - 2015

of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when …

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The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes

Huttunen, Kristiina - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using … variety of research designs are used to isolate the effect of the juvenile punishment and to control for observable … characteristics of the young offenders. The juvenile punishment experiment was initially conducted in certain criminal courts only and …

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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - 2011

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...

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Avoiding Convictions : Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders

Mueller-Smith, Michael - 2017

This paper studies the causal impact of court deferrals, a legal strategy to help defendants avoid a felony conviction record, on the future criminal and labor market outcomes of first-time felony drug offenders. To accomplish this, we exploit two natural experiments in Harris County, Texas, in...

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Mandatory Minimum Policy Reform and the Sentencing of Crack Cocaine Defendants : An Analysis of the Fair Sentencing Act

Bjerk, David - 2016

The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) affected the U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for to crack cocaine offenders, and represented the first Congressional reform of sentencing laws in over 20 years. A primary goal of this legislation was to lessen the harshness of sentences for...

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Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2016

The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an …

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Theft and Deterrence

Harbaugh, William T. - 2011

We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...

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What Can DNA Exonerations Tell Us About Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates?

Bjerk, David - 2018

We examine the extent to which DNA exonerations can reveal whether wrongful conviction rates differ across races. We show that under a wide-range of assumptions regarding possible explicit or implicit racial biases in the DNA exoneration process (including no bias), our results suggest the...

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Shaking Criminal Incentives

Aoki, Yu - 2019

We study criminal incentives exploiting the devastating shock of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Evidence shows that the earthquake decreased burglaries but left other crime types unaffected. The effect stays significant even after controlling for unemployment, policing and income. We corroborate this...

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