recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … individuals have a higher incentive to recidivate experienced higher recidivism. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … individuals have a higher incentive to recidivate experienced higher recidivism. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent …

municipalities where resident pardoned individuals had a higher incentive to recidivate experienced a higher recidivism rate …. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

We provide evidence about voters’ response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … individuals have a higher incentive to recidivate experienced higher recidivism. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … individuals have a higher incentive to recidivate experienced higher recidivism. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent …

municipalities where resident pardoned individuals had a higher incentive to recidivate experienced a higher recidivism rate …. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government’s ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

deterrence may actually reinforce deviant behavior. Only for some group of agents, once a given threshold of accumulated … penalties has been reached compliance may occur. Thus compliance is obtained only after some level of under-deterrence is … tolerated. We then provide some policy suggestions in order to improve general deterrence under a DPS for any given level of …

weakens deterrence. …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … rates of recidivism among ex-convicts is due to selection, and not a consequence of the experience of being in prison …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …