police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

This paper empirically examines perceptions of the criminal justice system held by young males using longitudinal … is little support, therefore, for the `broken windows' theory of Wilson and Kelling (1982). Yet, perceptions do respond … to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested …

This paper empirically examines perceptions of the criminal justice system held by young males using longitudinal … is little support, therefore, for the `broken windows' theory of Wilson and Kelling (1982). Yet, perceptions do respond … to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested …

Although a substantial body of research suggests that the discretion of discretion of actors in the criminal justice … against crime causes changes in sentencing patterns, or it serves as the means by which internal social norms of the criminal … justice system prevent the implementation of formal changes in laws. We reject both of these hypotheses using data on the …

Although a substantial body of research suggests that the discretion of discretion of actors in the criminal justice … against crime causes changes in sentencing patterns, or it serves as the means by which internal social norms of the criminal … justice system prevent the implementation of formal changes in laws. We reject both of these hypotheses using data on the …

-competition theory of rape, we identify instruments to correct for victim selection by offenders, allowing us to identify the factors …

. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …