. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new … series are made available in full, to allow other researchers to explore the consequences and causes of incarceration. …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … the mid-1980s. Since 1985, the Australian incarceration rate has risen by 130 percent, and now stands at 0.22 percent of …

. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new … series are made available in full, to allow other researchers to explore the consequences and causes of incarceration. …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … the mid-1980s. Since 1985, the Australian incarceration rate has risen by 130 percent, and now stands at 0.22 percent of …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of … cheating correlates with inmates' offenses against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal …

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 … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of … cheating correlates with inmates' offenses against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal …

For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming … the recipient is a charity. Prisoners give more, not less. -- Inequity aversion ; crime ; dictator game ; selfishness …