We present evidence on the effect of greater numbers of police personnel on crime and nuisance reduction in the … regions, allowing us to use this policy intervention to identify the effect of police on crime and nuisance. We control for … regional economic, social and demographic factors and for national trends that might obscure the effect of police on crime. We …

Recidivism studies differ with respect to samples, definitions and follow-up periods. While it is recognized that such … differences hamper comparability, there is little systematic knowledge about how recidivism figures are affected. We explore how … deliberate changes in the following three parameters affect the reported recidivism levels: 1) sample definition, 2) measure of …

punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time … stronger past experience of punishment should increase the sensitivity to future expected sanctions. …

punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time … stronger past experience of punishment should increase the sensitivity to future expected sanctions. …

deter crime in the period they are applied but offer criminals no information on their criminal ability. Crime is also …Empirical studies have found that increasing the probability of punishment has a greater effect on crime than the … severity of punishment. This note explains this as the result of criminals having imperfect information on their criminal …

How does public access to criminal records affect crime? Economic theory suggests that expanding access to criminal … higher recidivism rates. I exploit the state and time variation in the introduction of state-maintained online criminal …€“ to empirically investigate the trade-off between deterrence and recidivism. I find that online criminal records lead to a …

-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling … beauty, high school beauty (pre-labor market beauty) has a separate impact on crime, and that high school beauty is … labor market penalty provides a direct incentive for unattractive individuals toward criminal activity. Second, the level of …

Bail is an institution of substantive criminal law (material). Bail is at the same time, an institution complementary …