, 1996 (Bastille Day) to identify the effect of collective sentence reductions on recidivism. The collective pardon generated … recidivism probability five years after the release and prospective date of release. Overall, the Bastille Day quasi experiment … suggests that collective sentence reductions increase recidivism and do not represent a cost-effective way to reduce …

criminal law instead of juvenile penal law decreases expected recidivism of adolescents. …

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 … implemented "tough-on-crime" policy of the Canadian government has been largely successful in reducing the probability of repeat …

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 …

. Using longitudinal data for Norway, we find that imprisonment has no effect on fathers' recidivism but reduces their … employment by 20 percentage points. We find no evidence that paternal incarceration affects a child's criminal activity or school …

likelihood of future criminal justice involvement fell, with no apparent increase in local crime rates. … estimates of the causal effects of misdemeanor prosecution on defendants' subsequent criminal justice involvement. We leverage … nonviolent misdemeanor offense leads to large reductions in the likelihood of a new criminal complaint over the next two years …

The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an … in Italy and provide non-parametric evidence on the extent of discounting from the raw data on recidivism and sentence … length. Using a discrete-choice model of recidivism, we estimate an average annual discount factor of 0.74, although there is …