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Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest Laws
Plumb, Radha - 2010
Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police … inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest … abusers when a domestic violence incident is reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …
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The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers
Carrell, Scott E. - 2016
children from families linked to domestic violence, who were shown by Carrell and Hoekstra (2010, 2012) to disrupt … reduces earnings at age 26 by 3 to 4 percent. We estimate that differential exposure to children linked to domestic violence …
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Politics in the Courtroom : Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
Anwar, Shamena - 2015
This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random …
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A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2012
In this paper we consider possible links between the advent and diffusion of a number of new psychiatric pharmaceutical therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk factor both for criminal behavior and...
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The Need for Enemies
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2012
We develop a political economy model where some politicians have a comparative advantage in undertaking a task and this gives them an electoral advantage. This creates an incentive to underperform in the task in order to maintain their advantage. We interpret the model in the context of fighting...
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Alcohol Consumption, Deterrence and Crime in New York City
Corman, Hope - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption, deterrence, and crime for New York City. We examine high-frequency time-series data from 1983 to 2001 for one specific location to examine the impacts of variations in both alcohol consumption and deterrence on seven "index"...
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Deterrence and the Optimal Use of Prison, Parole, and Probation
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2017
In this article we derive the mix of criminal sanctions—choosing among prison, parole, and probation—that achieves any target level of deterrence at least cost. We assume that prison has higher disutility and higher cost per unit time than parole and probation and that potential offenders...
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Place-Based Interventions at Scale : The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime
Blattman, Christopher - 2017
Cities target police patrols and public services to control crime. What are the direct and spillover effects of such targeted state services? In 2016 the city of Bogotá, Colombia, experimented on an unprecedented scale. They randomly assigned 1,919 streets to either 8 months of doubled police...
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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Dyck, I. J. Alexander - 2010
What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one...
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The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment : A Question of Life and Death
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010
The debate over the legitimacy or propriety of the death penalty may be almost as old as the death penalty itself and, in the view of the increasing trend towards its complete abolition, perhaps as outdated. Not surprisingly, and as is generally recognized by contemporary writers on this topic,...
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