opened prison, we conducted a randomized field experiment that offered citizens the opportunity to experience up to two days …

opened prison, we conducted a randomized field experiment that o!ered citizens the opportunity to experience up to two days …

diagnoses and medication are upwards of five times more likely for individuals who have a Swedish prison record than those … without. We merge Swedish prison registers (with detailed healthcare data) to out-of-prison healthcare, crime, and employment … data to study the effect of in-prison ADHD diagnoses. For individuals with no ADHD history, this new diagnosis treatment …

Azerbaijan. Conclusions: Countries with a higher GDP per capita tend to have lower prison population rates and to invest larger … amounts of funds for prison systems. …

significant part of criminal peer exposure happens in prison, directly influenced by policymakers. This paper provides a broader … understanding of how peer effects shape criminal behavior among prison inmates, focusing on co-inmate impacts on recidivism and … criminal network formation. Using Norwegian register data on over 140,000 prison spells, we causally identify peer effects …

.2 million prisoners. We document the spread of prison norms in localities exposed to the released ex-prisoners. As inmates' code …

We study the effect of prison sentences on recidivism using a unique feature of sentencing for drunk driving in the … Swedish court system. Below the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 1.0‰, individuals are never sentenced to prison and above … 1.0‰, the average number of days sentenced to prison is essentially linearly increasing with the BAC level. We find that …

Does early release decrease or increase the probability that ex-convicts will return to prison? We exploit unique data … variation in early releases and find that early releases reduce the propensity of prisoners to return to prison. Robustness …