assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One feature of these data is that the second generation can be identified, allowing … incarceration than natives of native parentage, but these differences disappear after controlling for nativity differences in … urbanicity and occupational status. Finally, while the incarceration rates of new arrivals differ significantly by source country …

incarceration by estimating sibling and neighborhood correlations. At the extensive margin, factors common to siblings account for … 24 percent of the variation in criminal convictions and 39 percent of the variation in incarceration. At the intensive … margin, these factors typically account for slightly less than half of the variation in prison sentence length and between …

disproportionately incarcerated. The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that … particularly increased punishment of criminal aliens. In fact, immigrants have much lower institutionalization (incarceration … relative incarceration rates, and this difference increased from 1980 to 2000. We present a model of immigrant self …

An intertemporal general equilibrium model of criminal behavior is used to analyze the effect on crime of changing … policy parameters. The policy parameters are the length of the prison term, the severity of punishment, and the amount of … police resources. The number of crimes in society can be decomposed into an incentive part, an incarceration part, and a …

Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …

Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown, that despite the public rhetoric, immigrants have … lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …. We find that in 1904 prison commitment rates for more serious crimes were quite similar for the two nativity groups for …

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 …

incarceration rates or prisons' overcrowding. …