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Misdemeanor prosecution
Agan, Amanda; Doleac, Jennifer L.; Harvey, Anna - 2021
likelihood of future criminal justice involvement fell, with no apparent increase in local crime rates. …
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions
Jordan, Andrew; Karger, Ezra; Neal, Derek A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine 70,581 felony court cases filed in Chicago, IL, from 1990-2007. We exploit case randomization to assess the impact of judge assignment and sentencing decisions on the arrival of new charges. We find that, in marginal cases, incarceration creates large and lasting reductions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447260
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Judicial Errors, Crime Deterrence and Appeals : Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts
Sarel, Roee - 2018
This paper investigates how different outcomes of criminal appeals impact crime deterrence. My panel data analysis … (1997-2013) indicates that crime rates decrease when convictions are affirmed by the appellate court, as long as conviction … rates are not too high. Crime rates are further found to decrease when convictions are reversed but increase when cases are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936439
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Financing the War on Drugs : The Impact of Law Enforcement Grants on Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests
Cox, Robynn - 2017
We estimate the effectiveness of the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program, a grant program authorized under the 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act to combat illicit drug abuse and to improve the criminal justice system, on racial bias in policing. Funds for the Byrne...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948003
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Optimal Law Enforcement Under Asymmetric Information
Jellal, Mohamed; Garoupa, Nuno - 2000
asymmetry of information between government and enforcers and the crime rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173800
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions
Jordan, Andrew; Karger, Ezra; Neal, Derek A. - 2022
We examine 70,581 felony court cases filed in Chicago, IL, during the period 1990–2007. We exploit case randomization to assess the impact of judge assignment and sentencing decisions on the arrival of new charges. Our estimates of the impact of incarceration on recidivism show that, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309265
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The Economics of Organized Crime and Optimal Law Enforcement
Garoupa, Nuno - 1998
This paper extends the optimal law enforcement literature to organized crime. We model the criminal organization as a … organized crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067329
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On the Interaction of Individual and Collective Crime
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 2371-2379
This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises … between detection probabilities where detection of an individual crime may result in the uncovering of the collective crime as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492578
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Determinants of violent and property crimes in England and Wales : a panel data analysis
Han, Lu; Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Bhattacharya, Samrat - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374196
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The political economy of moral conflict : an empirical study of learning and law enforcement under prohibition
García Jimeno, Camilo - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 84 (2016) 2, pp. 511-570
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