significant part of criminal peer exposure happens in prison, directly influenced by policymakers. This paper provides a broader … understanding of how peer effects shape criminal behavior among prison inmates, focusing on co-inmate impacts on recidivism and … criminal network formation. Using Norwegian register data on over 140,000 prison spells, we causally identify peer effects …

gap.” Second, those who do obtain expungement have extremely low subsequent crime rates, comparing favorably to the …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … correlates with inmates’ offenses against in-prison regulation. Altogether, these findings suggest that criminal identity plays a …

between incarceration and crime, with the emphasis on deterrence effect and the prison paradox. This stream of research is …We present the attempt of finding association between crime level and prison population across European countries. We … offer justification that is methodologically based on correlations and regressions of country incarceration rates on crime …

rate is quite high among those who are released from incarceration, perhaps as high as 50%. This high number brings with it …. The essay suggests that the passion for equal treatment among those who commit the same crime, a prominent goal of the …

prison. Rewarding good behavior reduces the state's cost of operating prisons. But rewarding good behavior also tends to … lower the deterrence of crime because such rewards diminish the disutility of imprisonment. I demonstrate that, despite this …

The deterrence of crime and its reduction through incapacitation are studied in a simple multiperiod model of crime and …