Does early release decrease or increase the probability that ex-convicts will return to prison? We exploit unique data … in instrumental variable estimations and find that early releases reduce the propensity of prisoners to return to prison …

improve their marks over time. This suggests that this correctional intervention also reduces selfishness. -- Crime ; Prison … calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average … because they are excessively selfish. Finally those who receive better marks at prison school give more, as do those who …

This paper analyses the effects of two recent reforms introduced in Italy since 2010 in an attempt to reduce prison …

This article considers the possibility of simultaneously reducing crime, prison sentences, and the tax burden of …. The feasibility of this procedure depends on how effectively the marginal imprisonment sentence reduces crime, the crime … positive sanctions are optimal are broader than those under which they can be used to jointly reduce crime, sentences, and …

form of punishment, thus may not be substituted by less costly sanctions. Improving prison labour in European prisons has … the potential to decrease the costs of incarceration. Therefore, this paper discusses the methods to increase the … efficiency of the prison industry using the law and economics approach. Different incentive schemes may be introduced in prisons …

The deterrence of crime and its reduction through incapacitation are studied in a simple multiperiod model of crime and …

economics approach, this paper explores prison privatization as an instrument for less expensive incarceration. This method has … expensive, prison is an indispensible instrument to deal with judgment proof or dangerous offenders. Hence, by using the law and … the potential to reduce the prison costs without hampering its quality. However, a restructuring of the current contracts …

prison. Rewarding good behavior reduces the state's cost of operating prisons. But rewarding good behavior also tends to … lower the deterrence of crime because such rewards diminish the disutility of imprisonment. I demonstrate that, despite this …