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This paper studies the effects of both labor market conditions and asset poverty on the property crimes involvement of American males. Since the mid 60's the property crimes arrest rate has been four times higher for black males if compared to white ones. Another set of stylised facts show for...
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role in policing and the punishment arena. This curious incendiary combination of free market efficiency and the Big …. This work argues that our faith in "free markets" has severely distorted American politics and punishment practices. The …" emerged in reaction to an earlier, integrated vision of punishment and public economy, known in the eighteenth century as …
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Most studies of the deterrence effect of incarceration treat a year in prison as having the same deterrence effect regardless of the conditions of incarceration. In contrast, we estimate both the impact of custody rate and prison location changes on female crime rates. We take advantage of the...
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