development of crime rates, the decisions of authorities for prosecution and sanctioning, the amount and type of imposed criminal … sanctions, the enforcement of sanctions and the amount of reconviction after sanctioning. In this respect the German criminal … preliminary proceedings of public prosecutors, the enforcement of criminal sanctions as well as periodic reconviction statistic …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … further criminal behavior. For previously employed individuals, while there is no effect on recidivism, there is a lasting … panel dataset containing the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of the entire population, and exploit the random …

reintegrate into society. The inability to find stable work is often cited as a key determinant of failed re-entry (or “recidivism …”). However, empirical evidence that demonstrates a causal impact of job opportunities on recidivism is sparse. In fact, several … randomized evaluations of employment-focused programs find increases in employment but little impact on recidivism. Recent …

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 …