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equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … crime explained by the difference in observables. The model is calibrated relying on US data and solved numerically. The … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …

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The causes and labor-market consequences of the steep increase in US incarceration rates

Raphael, Steven - In: Labor in the era of globalization, (pp. 375-413). 2010

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The behavioral economics of crime and punishment

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2010

The Becker proposition (BP) is one of the founding pillars of the modern literature on Law and Economics. It states that it is optimal to impose the severest possible punishment (to maintain effective deterrence) at the lowest possible probability (to economize on enforcement costs). The BP is...

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Lessons in decolonization : aboriginal overrepresentation in Canadian criminal justice

Monture-Angus, Patricia A. - In: Inequality in Canada : a reader on the intersections of …, (pp. 266-281). 2010

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Mental health treatment and criminal justice outcomes

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Immigration : America's nineteenth century "law and order problem"?/ Howard Bodenhorn; Carolyn M. Moehling; Anne Morrison Piehl

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Institutional requirements for effective imposition of fines

Piehl, Anne Morrison; Williams, Geoffrey - 2010

."Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines,"NBER Chapters,in: Controlling Crime: Strategies and TradeoffsNational …

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The deterrent effects of prison : evidence from a natural experiment

Drago, Francesco (contributor); … - 2007

punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …

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Why are immigrants' incarceration rates so low? : Evidence on selective immigration, deterrence, and deportation

Butcher, Kristin F. (contributor); … - 2006

disproportionately incarcerated. The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that … activity, consistent with increasingly positive selection along this dimension. -- Assimilation ; crime ; immigration …

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Bargaining behind bars : peer and strategic interactions in theory and data

Chen, Melvin Keith - 2003

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