to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested … to engage in crime during subsequent periods. Following an arrest, individuals commit less crime, consistent with …

behavior. Then, the model is shown to be consistent with the data. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested revise … significantly more likely to engage in crime during subsequent periods. Perceived probabilities of arrest appear to be idiosyncratic … engaged in crime are lower than those of non-criminals. Despite substantial heterogeneity in the perceived probability of …

rate is quite high among those who are released from incarceration, perhaps as high as 50%. This high number brings with it …. The essay suggests that the passion for equal treatment among those who commit the same crime, a prominent goal of the …

’s criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven …

prison crime is accounted for, the economics of incarceration become significantly less favorable …As the United States’s prison and jail populations have skyrocketed, a wealth of empirical scholarship has emerged on … the benefits and costs of incarceration. The benefits, from an empirical perspective, consist of the amount of crime …

data from male rural-urban migrants prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine whether parental absence in …