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service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find that … increases the probability of incarceration for a violent crime by 0.34 percentage points and decreases the probability of … incarceration for a nonviolent crime by 0.30 percentage points. We conduct two falsification tests, one that applies each of the …
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In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can reduce such antisocial behaviors. These behavior changes may be temporary, however, especially from therapy on its own. This is unsettled,...
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We develop new quasi-experimental tools to understand algorithmic discrimination and build non-discriminatory algorithms when the outcome of interest is only selectively observed. These tools are applied in the context of pretrial bail decisions, where conventional algorithmic predictions are...
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School choice lotteries are an important tool for allocating access to high-quality and oversubscribed public schools. While prior evidence suggests that winning a school lottery decreases adult criminality, there is little evidence for how school choice lotteries impact non-lottery students who...
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This paper shows that shootings are predictable enough to be preventable. Using arrest and victimization records for almost 644,000 people from the Chicago Police Department, we train a machine learning model to predict the risk of being shot in the next 18 months. We address central concerns...
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to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …
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This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States from 2013-19. We begin by documenting that the media is significantly more likely to use several language structures - e.g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs -...
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This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...
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We study the opposing deterrent and enabling effects of guns carried by law-abiding citizens on violent crime, using … Violence Archive suggests that defensive gun use (DGU) by crime victims may decrease the probability of their injury or death … commensurate increase in the incidence and lethality of crime. In summary, our analysis supports the conclusion that the widespread …
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How does immigration enforcement affect public safety? Heightened enforcement could reduce crime by deterring and … incapacitating immigrant offenders or, alternatively, increase crime by discouraging victims from reporting offenses. We study the U …
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