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Punishment and crime : the impact of felony conviction on criminal activity

Jackson, Osborne - 2020 - This version: October 2019

This paper uses increases in felony larceny thresholds as a negative shock to felony conviction probability to examine the impact of punishment severity on criminal behavior. In the theft value distribution between old and new larceny thresholds ("response region"), higher thresholds cause a 2...

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Mechanisms for Reducing Criminal Recidivism : Experimental Evidence

DeAngelo, Gregory J.; Charness, Gary; Freeborn, Beth A. - 2011

We conduct laboratory experiments to investigate the effect of deterrence mechanisms on recidivism under controlled conditions. Experimental analysis allows for easier identification of recidivism than the use of empirical or field data. Specifically, we focus on the effect of variation in...

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Like Godfather, Like Son : Explaining the Intergenerational Nature of Crime

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2009

This paper studies intergenerational correlations in crime between fathers and their children and the underlying mechanisms that give rise to these correlations. Using data from the Stockholm Birth Cohort, we find strong evidence of an intergenerational criminal relationship. Sons whose fathers...

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Prison Work Programs in a Model of Deterrence

Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2017

This article considers the social desirability of prison work programs in a model in which the function of imprisonment is to deter crime. Two types of prison work programs are studied — voluntary ones and mandatory ones. A voluntary work program is socially beneficial: if prisoners are paid a...

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On the Ambiguous Effects of Repression

Langlais, Eric - 2009

The purpose of this note is to investigate the optimal enforcement of the penal code when criminals invest in a specific class of avoidance activities termed dissembling activities (i.e. self-protection efforts undertaken by criminals to hedge their illegal gains in case of detection and...

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'Ban the Box' Policies and Criminal Recidivism

Sherrard, Ryan - 2020

have tried to increase the employment prospects of ex-offenders through "Ban the Box" (BTB) policies, making it illegal to … policies are at helping ex-offenders successfully stay out of prison. In addition, recent research has shown that BTB policies … market with a BTB policy is associated with higher rates of recidivism for black ex-offenders, with little to no effect for …

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Subgame Perfect Punishment for Repeat Offenders

Emons, Winand - 2005

First we show that for wealth-constrained agents who may commit an act twice the optimal sanctions are the offender's entire wealth for the first and zero for the second crime. Then we ask the question whether this decreasing sanction scheme is subgame perfect (time consistent), i.e., does a...

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Chapter 7 Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment

Levitt, Steven D.; Miles, Thomas J. - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 455-495). 2007

This chapter reviews empirical studies of criminal punishment and the criminal justice system by economists. Since the modern exposition of the economic model of criminal behavior, empirical economists have tested its predictions using variation in expected criminal punishments. In the past...

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Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority : Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework

Mueller-Smith, Michael; Pyle, Benjamin; Walker, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...

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The Role of Repugnance in Markets : How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway

Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; Cunningham, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economics has long studied how consumers respond to the disclosure of information about firms. We study a case in which the disclosed information is unrelated to the product or firm leadership, but which could still potentially affect consumer patronage through the mechanism of repugnance, as...

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