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Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime

Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

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The US Crime Puzzle : A Comparative Perspective on US Crime & Punishment

Spamann, Holger - 2015

This paper compares actual US crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions. Global … cross-country regressions of crime and incarceration on background characteristics explain much of the variation between … other countries. But the estimated models predict only one-fourth of US incarceration and not all of US crime. The …

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Facts or ideology : what determines the results of econometric estimates of the deterrence effect of death penalty? ; a meta-analysis

Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2013

Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that individual authors persistently claim to have found solid evidence in one or the other direction raises two questions. Firstly, what are the causes for these different results? Do...

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Stand your ground laws and homicides

McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and … your ground ; castle doctrine ; guns ; crime …

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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J. (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

; homicide ; crime ; death penalty ; differences-in-differences ; murder ; deterrence …

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Gun violence in the U.S. : correlates and causes

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2017

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model which suggests that firearm-related offenses in a given county increase with the number of illegal guns and decrease with social...

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Gun violence in the U.S. : correlates and causes

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2017

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Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority : Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework

Mueller-Smith, Michael; Pyle, Benjamin; Walker, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...

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Decomposing Violence : Crime Cycles in the Twentieth Century in the United States

Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo A. - 2008

waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, alternation in power, social …

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The Unintended Consequences of the U.S. Adversarial Model in Latin American Crime

Zorro Medina, Angela - 2020

experienced a dramatic increase in crime, consolidating it as one of the most violent areas in the world. Despite previous …. In this paper, we use the Latin American case to evaluate the impact of an adversarial reform on crime rates. Exploiting … crime rates (22%), violent crime (15%), and property crime (8%). However, we observe a dramatic decrease in drug offenses …

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