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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 … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and … punishment and suggests that certain types enforcement can be reduced without incurring large public safety costs …
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Mandatory minimum policy reform and the sentencing of crack cocaine defendants : an analysis of the fair sentencing act
Bjerk, David - 2016
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) affected the U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for to crack cocaine offenders, and represented the first Congressional reform of sentencing laws in over 20 years. A primary goal of this legislation was to lessen the harshness of sentences for...
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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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Essays in applied microeconometrics
Cerveny, Jakub - 2017
Duration analysis has been widely used in the applied economic research since the late 1970s. The framework allows to examine the duration of time intervals and the rate of transition across a set of states over time. Many economic behaviors follow a similar pattern, such as transition from the...
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Civil asset forfeiture, crime, and police incentives : evidence from the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
Kantor, Shawn Everett; Kitchens, Carl T.; Pawlowski, Steven - 2017
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The effects of medical marijuana laws on illegal marijuana use
Chu, Luke Yu-Wei - 2014
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Do medical marijuana laws increase hard drug use?
Chu, Luke Yu-Wei - 2014
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Adolescent drug use and the deterrent effect of school-imposed penalties
Waddell, Glen R. - 2010
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. The potential reverse causality is also a challenge to retrieving estimates of the causal...
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Risks and prices : the role of user sanctions in marijuana markets
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Kilmer, Beau; Grossman, Michael; … - 2007
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Judicial Reliance on Risk Assessment in Sentencing Drug and Property Offenders : A Test of the Treatment Resource Hypothesis
Garrett, Brandon L. - 2019
For almost two decades, Virginia has used risk assessment to justify “alternative” nonprison sentences for eligible drug and property offenders. In Study 1, we examined how frequently alternative sentences actually were imposed. We found that alternative sentences were given to only 42% of...
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