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 …

, 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. …

Recidivism studies differ with respect to samples, definitions and follow-up periods. While it is recognized that such … differences hamper comparability, there is little systematic knowledge about how recidivism figures are affected. We explore how … deliberate changes in the following three parameters affect the reported recidivism levels: 1) sample definition, 2) measure of …

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 …