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 deaths in the facility of detention during an inmate's stay and …

calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average … because they are excessively selfish. Finally those who receive better marks at prison school give more, as do those who …

county jail populations, a moderate decline in the state prison population, a decrease in arrests for property and drug …We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the …-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little …

. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new …

Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past … appear to be the main drivers of Australia's growing prison population. …

. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new …

Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past … appear to be the main drivers of Australia's growing prison population. …

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 …

-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on … research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of …We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …