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Does changing employers' access to criminal histories affect ex-offenders' recidivism? : evidence from the 2010-2012 Massachusetts CORI Reform
Jackson, Osborne; Zhao, Bo - 2017 - This version: February, 2017
-offender recidivism. We use extensive state administrative data on individual criminal histories spanning the 2010-2012 Massachusetts … Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) Reform, widely regarded as landmark legislation governing access to individuals …' criminal information. The CORI Reform: i) banned inquiring about criminal history on initial job applications, and ii …
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The effect of changing employers' access to criminal histories on ex-offenders' labor market outcomes: Evidence from the 2010-2012 Massachusetts CORI Reform
Jackson, Osborne; Zhao, Bo - 2017
Many regard the 2010-2012 Massachusetts Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) Reform as a national model to …'s criminal record (the record-access reform). Using the CORI Reform as a natural experiment and a unique large confidential … dataset linking individuals' CORI records with their unemployment insurance quarterly wage records, we examine the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754827
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The effect of changing employers' access to criminal histories on ex-offenders' labor market outcomes : evidence from the 2010-2012 Massachusetts CORI Reform
Jackson, Osborne; Zhao, Bo - 2017 - This version: February, 2017
Many regard the 2010-2012 Massachusetts Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) Reform as a national model to …'s criminal record (the record-access reform). Using the CORI Reform as a natural experiment and a unique large confidential … dataset linking individuals' CORI records with their unemployment insurance quarterly wage records, we examine the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626809
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Early Release and Recidivism
Meier, Armando N.; Levav, Jonathan; Meier, Stephan - 2020
Does early release decrease or increase the probability that ex-convicts will return to prison? We exploit unique data from Israeli courts, where appearance before the judge throughout the day has an arbitrary component. We first show that judges more often deny parole requests of prisoners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207716
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Early release and recidivism
Meier, Armando N.; Levav, Jonathan; Meier, Stephan - 2020
Does early release decrease or increase the probability that ex-convicts will return to prison? We exploit unique data from Israeli courts, where appearance before the judge throughout the day has an arbitrary component. We first show that judges more often deny parole requests of prisoners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182764
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Avoiding Convictions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2016
This paper studies the causal impact of court deferrals, a legal strategy to help defendants avoid a felony conviction record, on the future criminal and labor market outcomes of first-time felony drug offenders. To accomplish this, we exploit two natural experiments in Harris County, Texas, in...
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The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes
Sloan, Carly Will; Naufal, George S; Caspers, Heather - 2018
score policy on judge bond decisions, defendant pretrial detention, and pretrial recidivism. We identify effects by … find risk assessment scores did not increase violent pretrial recidivism, however there is some suggestive evidence of … small increases in non-violent pretrial recidivism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984508
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On probation: an experimental analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266976
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Turning 18: What a difference application of adult criminal law makes
Entorf, Horst - 2011
criminal law instead of juvenile penal law decreases expected recidivism of adolescents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274674
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Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects: An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
Bresson, Georges; Lacroix, Guy; Arshad Rahman, Mohammad - 2020
shown to perform extremely well. Furthermore, we implement the proposed framework to study crime recidivism in Quebec, a … offenses in the post-policy period. Besides, our results support existing findings on crime recidivism and offer new insights …
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