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Mandatory minimums and the sentencing of federal drug crimes
Bjerk, David - 2017
The United States federal mandatory minimums have been controversial not only because of the length of the mandatory sentences for even first-time offenders, but also because the eligibility quantities for crack are very small when compared to those for other drugs. This paper shows that the...
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Crime and (a preference for) punishment : the effects of drug policy reform on policing activity
Soliman, Adam - 2021
environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … am able to shed light on enforcement behavior. I find that in parts of a city where drug penalties were weakened, there … is a 13% decrease in drug arrests within a year; there is no displacement of non-drug offenses and majority black …
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Do Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Hard Drug Use?
Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - 2016
Medical marijuana laws generate significant debate regarding drug policy. For instance, if marijuana is a complement to … empirically the effects of medical marijuana laws by analyzing data on drug arrests and treatment admissions. I find that medical …
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Prosecution of drug users in Europe : varying pathways to similar objectives
Ballotta, Danilo (contributor); Dorn, Nicholas (ed.) - 2002
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Rewards versus imprisonment : the impact of choice
Mungan, Murat C. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 18 (2022) 1, pp. 69-83
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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents
Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019
The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …
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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents
Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019
The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126178
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Punishment and crime : the impact of felony conviction on criminal activity
Jackson, Osborne - 2020 - This version: October 2019
incentives and deter crime in the long run. …
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Causal effects of mental health treatment on education outcomes for youth in the justice system
Cuellar, Alison Evans; Dave, Dhaval - 2016
a limited number of studies have linked justice policies to outcomes beyond crime, particularly education, which carries …
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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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