county jail populations, a moderate decline in the state prison population, a decrease in arrests for property and drug …We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the …-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little …

-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 …

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 …

We analyze the disparate effects of a recent California sentencing reform on the arrest, booking, and incarceration … approximate 20 percent decline in total property crime arrests, and shifts in the composition of arrests away from felonies … offenses), inter-racial disparities in jail booking rates narrow by nearly half. Finally, we use data from the American …

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 …