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a limited number of studies have linked justice policies to outcomes beyond crime, particularly education, which carries …
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Although there exists a large literature analyzing whether an individual's peers have an impact on that individual's own behavior and subsequent outcomes, there is paucity of research on whether peers influence a person's decisions and judgments regarding a third party. We investigate whether...
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in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities … influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease …
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This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using … variety of research designs are used to isolate the effect of the juvenile punishment and to control for observable … characteristics of the young offenders. The juvenile punishment experiment was initially conducted in certain criminal courts only and …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of juvenile punishment on adult criminal recidivism and high school … completion. We link the universe of case files of those who were convicted of a crime as a juvenile between 1996 and 2012 in a … to utilize information on the exact types of crimes committed, as well as the type and duration of punishment imposed …
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juvenile crime increases when the age of criminal majority is increased. As predicted by dynamic models of crime, these effects … are driven by age groups well below the age of criminal majority. Further, the increase is driven by crime categories that … paper focuses on crime as a dynamic process, and shows that offenders can respond in anticipation of increases in criminal …
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This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using … variety of research designs are used to isolate the effect of the juvenile punishment and to control for observable … characteristics of the young offenders. The juvenile punishment experiment was initially conducted in certain criminal courts only and …
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severity imposed upon adolescents at age 18 deters violent crime by 10-12%. Results are robust to multiple techniques and … specifications. Using these results, we estimate an elasticity of crime with respect to sanction intensity that ranges from -0.145 to …
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