We examine the gap in registered crime between the children of immigrants and the children of native Swedes. Our study … underprivileged in those resources, a gap in crime may occur. In the empirical analyses we follow all individuals who completed …, which are measured in 2005. For males, we are generally able to explain between half and three-quarters of this gap in crime …

considering the effects of recent paternal and maternal incarceration on child homelessness using data from the Fragile Families … of homelessness, establish appropriate time-order between recent parental incarceration and child homelessness, and … include information about prior housing. Results show substantial effects of recent paternal (but not maternal) incarceration …

Incarceration, now a rite of passage for many economically disadvantaged minority men involving an immediate and … and isolated from families. Despite a burgeoning literature documenting the collateral consequences of incarceration for … family life, as well as evidence that the deleterious effects of incarceration for maternal and child wellbeing stem from …

exclusively non-violent offenders, who now make up over 60 percent of the prison and jail population. A review of the extensive … research on incarceration and crime suggests that these savings could be achieved without any appreciable deterioration in … calculate that a reduction in incarceration rates just to the level we had in 1993 (which was already high by historical …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of … cheating correlates with inmates' offenses against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal identity …

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 …

post-release criminal activity, we identify the causal effect of prison conditions on recidivism rates by exploiting a … discontinuity in the assignment of federal prisoners to security levels. We find that harsher prison conditions are associated with … significantly more post-release crime. …

As maternal incarceration may help, harm, or have no effect on child wellbeing, increases in the risk of maternal … considered the effect of maternal incarceration on child wellbeing after adjusting for differences between children who do and do … not experience maternal incarceration. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to consider the …

punitiveness of criminal sanctions at 18 to estimate the deterrence effect of incarceration. Our analysis suggests a 2 percent …

-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 …