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Police Discretion and Public Safety
Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Mello, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over fines by deviating from statutory fine rules. Relying on variation across officers in this discretionary behavior, we find that harsher sanctions reduce future traffic offending and...
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Do Cops Know Who to Stop? Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment
Abrams, David S.; Fang, Hanming; Goonetilleke, Priyanka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The standard economic model of police stops implies that the contraband hit rate should rise when the number of stops or searches per officer falls, ceteris paribus. We provide empirical corroboration of such optimizing models of police behavior by examining changes in stops and frisks around...
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Market Response to Racial Uprisings
Ba, Bocar A.; Rivera, Roman; Whitefield, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-profile violence against Black civilians and calls for systemic change into shareholder gains and additional revenues for police …
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Does nothing stop a bullet like a job?$bthe effects of income on crime
Ludwig, Jens; Schnepel, Kevin T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do jobs and income-transfer programs affect crime? The answer depends on why one is asking the question, which shapes what one means by "crime." Many studies focus on understanding why overall crime rates vary across people, places, and time; since 80% of all crimes are property offenses, that's...
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Positive Incentives : The Income Effect and The Optimal Regulation of Crime
MacLeod, William Bentley; Rivera, Roman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Theories of crime in economics focus on the roles of deterrence and incapacitation in reducing criminal activity. In addition to deterrence, a growing body of empirical evidence has shown that both income support and employment subsidies can play a role in crime reduction. This paper extends the...
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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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Therapy to Reduce Violence and Improve Institutional Safety During Incarceration
Batistich, Mary Kate; Evans, William N.; Giles, Tyler; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate the impact of Step Up, a cognitive behavioral therapy program administered to inmates at the Lubbock County Detention Center in Lubbock, Texas. Step Up aims to address self-destructive thought and behavior patterns through a combination of group classes, one-on-one counseling, and a...
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Deterrence Through Response Curves : An Empirical Analysis of the Gaza-Israel Conflict
Berman, Eli; Khadka, Prabin B.; Klinenberg, Danny; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-escalation, incomplete deterrence, and deterrence by denial. In this approach, episodes of violence are due to interacting response curves …
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The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots : Evidence from Property Values
Collins, William J. - 2004
In the 1960s numerous cities in the United States experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. Although social scientists have long studied the causes of the riots, the consequences have received much less attention. This paper examines census data from 1950 to 1980 to measure the...
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Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law : Divorce Laws and Family Distress
Stevenson, Betsey - 2003
. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …. We analyze state panel data to estimate changes in suicide, domestic violence, and spousal murder rates arising from the … large decline in domestic violence for both men and women in states that adopted unilateral divorce. We find suggestive …
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