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Status-seeking in criminal subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance
Dur, Robert; van der Weele, Joël - 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 for...
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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory
Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015
hypotheses derived from the theory. …
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Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by substance-abuse-treatment facility openings and closings measured at the county level. The results indicate that...
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Avoiding Convictions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2016
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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The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes
Sloan, Carly Will; Naufal, George S; Caspers, Heather - 2018
The use of risk assessment scores as a means of decreasing pretrial detention for low-risk, primarily poor defendants is increasing rapidly across the United States. Despite this, there is little evidence on how risk assessment scores alter criminal outcomes. Using administrative data from a...
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High on Crime? Exploring the Effects of Marijuana Dispensary Laws on Crime in California Counties
Hunt, Priscillia E; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; … - 2018
Regulated marijuana markets are more common today than outright prohibitions across the U.S. states. Advocates for policies that would legalize marijuana recreational markets frequently argue that such laws will eliminate crime associated with the black markets, which many argue is the only link...
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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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How do labor markets affect crime? New evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
by an intriguing puzzle - the large gap between the theory and empirical work. While the hypothesis that growing labor … consistent evidence in support of this theory. The primary contribution of this chapter is to document how recent research … - primarily since the late 1990s - makes substantial progress in resolving this disconnect between the theory and empirics. To …
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Turning 18: What a difference application of adult criminal law makes
Entorf, Horst - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...
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Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects: An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
Bresson, Georges; Lacroix, Guy; Arshad Rahman, Mohammad - 2020
This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an asymmetric Laplace (AL) error distribution and combine it with suitable prior distributions to obtain...
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