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The literature contains ambiguous findings as to whether statistical discrimination, e.g. in the form of racial profiling, causes a reduction in deterrence. These analyses, however, assume that enforcers' incentives are exogenously fixed. This article demonstrates that when the costs and...
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discrimination leads to an increase in crime rates under plausible conditions. This suggests that societies in which membership to … crime rates. Attempting to fix the negative impacts of statistical discrimination through policies that reduce the … visibility of criminal records increases crime rates further. Moreover, such policies cause a greater negative effect for law …
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imprecise or incomplete. Our findings are largely consistent with others in the sparse literature investigating the crime … from reduced crime in addition to their direct health-related benefits …
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, would be reconvicted for the type of crime for which they were previously convicted. Analyses of potential mechanisms show …
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An attempt is 'abandoned' if the criminal, despite having a chance to continue with his criminal plan, forgoes the opportunity to do so. A regime that makes abandonment a defense to criminal attempts provides an incentive to the offender to withdraw from his criminal conduct prior to completing...
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It is commonly assumed that potential offenders are more responsive to increases in the certainty than increases in the severity of punishment. An important implication of this assumption within the Beckerian law enforcement model is that criminals are risk-seeking. This note adds to existing...
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Private protection and public policing interact in the fight against property crime. While property owners tailor their …
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This article presents a model wherein law enforcers propose sentences to maximize their likelihood of reelection, and shows that elections typically generate over-incarceration, i.e., longer than optimal sentences. It then studies the effects of disenfranchisement laws, which prohibit convicted...
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This article considers the possibility of simultaneously reducing crime, prison sentences, and the tax burden of …. The feasibility of this procedure depends on how effectively the marginal imprisonment sentence reduces crime, the crime … positive sanctions are optimal are broader than those under which they can be used to jointly reduce crime, sentences, and …
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