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Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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We study the labor market impacts of retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors in San Joaquin County, CA, where criminal justice agencies implemented Proposition 47 reductions in a quasi-random order, without requiring input or action from affected individuals. Linking records of...
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incentives and deter crime in the long run. …
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Moroccan descent convicted of a crime increased by 79% after the shock. Heterogeneity analyses indicate that more …
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, arrest increases the probability an offender is charged with a crime. Our findings argue against recent calls for a …
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