multiplier in crime of 2. -- crime ; social interactions ; indirect effects …

increases recidivism. -- Crime ; prison ; deterrence …

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. …

judicial administration of organized crime firms through the imposition of external managers in order to remove the connection …, suggesting that the burden the organized crime firms impose on other firms is very large. Firms' performance and turnover … increases by 2.2 and 0.7 percent, respectively, in the first four years after an organized crime firm enters the status of …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …