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the sanctions against criminal activity, or of the taxation of legal incomes, may weaken the social norm against crime … increase in the crime rate. We show that law enforcement policies may have dramatic and permanent efects on the crime rate, and …
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In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …
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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 …
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We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...
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-cooperative way how much crime effort he will exert. We show that the Nash equilibrium crime effort of each individual is proportional … removed, leads to the maximum reduction in aggregate crime. We provide a geometric characterization of the key player … player for a group of criminals of a given size. We finally endogeneize the crime participation decision, resulting in a key …
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This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is … unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible … alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior. These …
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several reasons. On the one hand, there are important instances in which punishment is unable to reduce crime or may even …The economics of crime concentrates on policies in the form of punishments. To adopt such a policy is unwise for …
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This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random...
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purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various …
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property and violent crime. Whereas local inequality only shows an effect on crime committed by resident offenders, crime …The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non …-resident offenders. Employing data for German municipalities, the model is estimated by means of a spatial GMM approach. Focusing on …
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