and federal minimum wage increases, as well as 21 state EITC programs, on recidivism. We find that the average minimum … observed for the potentially revenue generating crime categories of property and drug crimes; prison reentry for violent crimes … are unchanged, supporting our framing that minimum wages affect crime that serves as a source of income. The availability …

policies that reduce competition between criminal organizations …

This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates … specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our results reveal that, consistent with a theory in which height can be a source of … labor market disadvantage, criminals in early America were shorter than the average American, and individual crime hazards …

of engaging in crime and therefore, a priori drawing the conclusion that criminal activity cannot be altered by …Although decades of empirical research has demonstrated that criminal behavior responds to incentives, non …

individuals value living in close proximity to a convicted criminal. We use the exact location of sex offenders to exploit … variation in the threat of crime within small homogenous groupings of homes, and we use the timing of sex offenders' arrivals to … sexual offenses. We estimate costs of over $1 million per victim -- far in excess of estimates taken from the criminal …

measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the … proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many …

to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested …This paper empirically examines perceptions of the criminal justice system held by young males using longitudinal … respond similarly to changes in a sibling's criminal and arrest history. The perceived probability of arrest is then linked to …

Ban-the-box (BTB) laws, which prevent employers from asking prospective employees about their criminal histories at …-Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reports, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this study is the first to … estimate the effect of BTB laws on crime. We find some evidence that BTB laws are associated with an increase in property crime …

We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …