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Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"

Tella, Rafael Di - 2006

We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know from previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective is to...

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Crime and Young Men : The Role of Arrest, Criminal Experience, and Heterogeneity

Imai, Susumu - 2006

-criminal type, while past criminal experience raises current criminal activity for both types. Also, the age crime profile peaks at …

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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

Donohue, John J, III. - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System

Lochner, Lance - 2003

to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested … to engage in crime during subsequent periods. Following an arrest, individuals commit less crime, consistent with …

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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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Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

Tella, Rafael Di - 2011

We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the US over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about economic opportunities and...

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Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines

Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2010

expensive forms of punishment - prison - when cheaper alternatives - such as fines and other sanctions - are available. This …

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Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital and Future Crime : Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges

Aizer, Anna - 2013

whether such a penalty deters future crime or interrupts social and human capital formation in a way that increases the … likelihood of later criminal behavior. This paper uses the incarceration tendency of randomly-assigned judges as an instrumental … variable to estimate causal effects of juvenile incarceration on high school completion and adult recidivism. Estimates based …

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Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California's Proposition 36

Nicosia, Nancy - 2012

Like other states, minorities are disproportionately represented in the California's state prison system, particularly … through 2005 in California, we examine whether disparities in court dispositions to prison and drug treatment between White … being sentenced to prison are substantially reduced by propensity score weighting. Proposition 36 reduces the likelihood of …

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Deterrence and the Death Penalty : Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections

Manski, Charles F. - 2011

Researchers have long used repeated cross sectional observations of homicide rates and sanctions to examine the deterrent effect of the adoption and implementation of death penalty statutes. The empirical literature, however, has failed to achieve consensus. A fundamental problem is that the...

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