Tauchen, Helen; Witte, Ann Dryden; Griesinger, Harriet - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 76 (1994) 3, pp. 399-412
We estimate the general deterrent effect of criminal justice resources on criminal behavior using panel data for a sample representative of young men in U.S. urban areas. Our data, which combine individual-level information on arrests and personal characteristics with aggregate information on...