We examine the gap in registered crime between the children of immigrants and the children of native Swedes. Our study … underprivileged in those resources, a gap in crime may occur. In the empirical analyses we follow all individuals who completed …, which are measured in 2005. For males, we are generally able to explain between half and three-quarters of this gap in crime …

This article analyses the effects of public expenditure on the Bolsa Família Program on the Brazilian crime rate. It …

This article analyses the effects of public expenditure on the Bolsa Família Program on the Brazilian crime rate. It …

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 …

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 identity …

As maternal incarceration may help, harm, or have no effect on child wellbeing, increases in the risk of maternal … considered the effect of maternal incarceration on child wellbeing after adjusting for differences between children who do and do … not experience maternal incarceration. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to consider the …

punitiveness of criminal sanctions at 18 to estimate the deterrence effect of incarceration. Our analysis suggests a 2 percent …

-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on … research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of …We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …

-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on … research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of …We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on …