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Levitt, Steven D. - 2021

adult courts. During that same time period juvenile violent crime" rates have grown almost twice as quickly as adult crime … relative punishments" can account for 60 percent of the differential growth rates in juvenile and adult violent crime" between …

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Specific Versus General Enforcement of Law

Shavell, Steven - 2021

The problem of optimal public enforcement of law is examined in a model in which two types of enforcement effort are distinguished: specific enforcement effort, activity devoted to apprehending and penalizing individuals who have committed a single type of harmful act; and general enforcement...

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Incarceration Length, Employment, and Earnings

Kling, Jeffrey R. - 2021

This paper estimates effects of increases in incarceration length on employment and earnings prospects of individuals … after their release from prison. I utilize a variety of research designs including controlling for observable factors and … using instrumental variables for incarceration length based on randomly assigned judges with different sentencing …

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The Proper Scope of Government : Theory and an Application to Prisons

Hart, Oliver; Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert W. - 2021

effect on non-contractible quality. The model is applied to understanding the costs and benefits of prison privatization …

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An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders

Kuziemko, Ilyana; Levitt, Steven D. - 2021

is found to be almost as effective in reducing violent and property crime as locking up other types of offenders. We …

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The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - 2021

This chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law %u2013 the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. The theoretical core of our...

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Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens - 2021

A common practice in the fields of education, mental health, and juvenile justice is to segregate problem youths in groups with deviant peers. Assignments of this sort, which concentrate deviant youths, may facilitate deviant peer influence and lead to perverse outcomes. This possibility adds to...

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If Drug Treatment Works so Well, Why are so Many Drug Users in Prison?

Pollack, Harold A. - 2011

that very few of those entering state prison in 2004 or jail in 2002 would have been eligible for drug diversion through …

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Economical Crime Control

Cook, Philip J. - 2010

This paper is the introductory chapter for the forthcoming NBER volume Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs. The … Great Recession has led to cuts in criminal justice expenditures, and the trend towards ever-higher incarceration rates that … crime drop can be sustained. State and local revenue shortfalls have engendered intense interest in cost-cutting measures …

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The Response to Fines and Probability of Detection in a Series of Experiments

Bar-Ilan, Avner; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

We use traffic data from a series of experiments in the United States and Israel to examine how illegal behavior is deterred by various penalty schemes and whether deterrence varies with age, income, driving record and criminal record. We find that red light running decreases sharply in response...

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