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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …