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The effects of pre-trial detention on conviction, future crime, and employment : evidence from randomly assigned judges

Dobbie, Will; Goldin, Jacob; Yang, Crystal - 2016

, primarily through an increase in guilty pleas. Pre-trial detention has no detectable effect on future crime, but decreases pre …-trial crime and failures to appear in court. We also find suggestive evidence that pre-trial detention decreases formal sector …

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Do Collateral Sanctions Work? Evidence from the IRS' Passport Certification and Revocation Process

Organ, Paul R.; Ruda, Alex; Slemrod, Joel; Turk, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Penalties for tax evasion are typically financial, but many jurisdictions also utilize collateral sanctions that deny access to some government-provided service. To learn about the effectiveness of such penalties, we examine a U.S. policy restricting passport access for taxpayers with...

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Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? An Analysis of Prisoners on Death Row in the United States

Argys, Laura - 2003

Using data on the entire population of prisoners under a sentence of death in the U.S. between 1977 and 1997, this paper investigates the probability of being executed on death row in any given year, as well as the probability of commutation when reaching the end of death row. The analyses...

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Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences

Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly white and high-income neighborhoods are substantially over-represented on juries. Using quasi-random variation in those called for jury duty...

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Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism : Understanding the Revolving Door

Humphries, John Eric; Ouss, Aurélie; Stavreva, Kamelia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual incarcerated, there are approximately three who are recently convicted but not sentenced to prison or jail. We develop an empirical framework for studying the consequences of noncarceral conviction by...

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Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime

Ba, Bocar A.; Bayer, Patrick J.; Rim, Nayoung; Rivera, Roman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

effects of officer experience on neighborhood crime. Equalizing officer seniority across districts would reduce violent crime … rate by 4.6 percent and significantly decrease inequality in crime, discretionary arrests, and officer use of force across …

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The Causal Effect of Heat on Violence : Social Implications of Unmitigated Heat Among the Incarcerated

Mukherjee, Anita; Sanders, Nicholas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Correctional facilities commonly lack climate control, producing a setting absent endogenous responses to hot weather like avoidance, adjustment, and mitigation. We study daily weather variation across the state of Mississippi, and show that high temperatures increase intense violence among the...

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Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime?

Sabia, Joseph J.; Dave, Dhaval; Alotaibi, Fawaz; Rees, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

consumption will serve as a "gateway" to harder drug use and crime. Using data covering the period 2000-2019 from a variety of … national sources (the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Vital Statistics System …

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Guns, Privacy, and Crime

Acquisti, Alessandro; Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

handgun carry permit holders. We use detailed crime and handgun carry permit data for the city of Memphis to estimate the …

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The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime : A Review of Economic Studies

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Mallatt, Justine; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

opioids and health and healthcare, and crime outcomes in the U.S. We focus on the U.S., a country particularly hard hit by the … continuation. Further, studies suggest that opioids increase crime, although the link is not as strong as has been observed in … substances (e.g., cocaine) that dominated earlier drug epidemic periods characterized by higher levels of crime. Through the …

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