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Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Kilmer, Beau - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent,...

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A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation

Gan, Li; Williams, Roberton C. Williams III; Wiseman, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate...

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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...

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Market Wages and Youth Crime

Grogger, Jeffrey T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Youth crime is widespread. To study the effect of market wages on youth crime, I analyze a time-allocation model in which consumers face parametric wages and diminishing marginal returns to crime. Under these assumptions, an individual who works will commit crime if the returns to the first hour...

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Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving

Hansen, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Traditional economic models of criminal behavior have straightforward predictions: raising the expected cost of crime via apprehension probabilities or punishments decreases crime. I test the effect of harsher punishments on deterring driving under the influence (DUI). In this setting,...

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Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation

Cook, Philip J; Ludwig, Jens; Samaha, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The "core right" established in D.C. vs. Heller (2008) is to keep an operable handgun in the home for self-defense purposes. If the Court extends this right to cover state and local jurisdictions, the result is likely to include the elimination of the most stringent existing regulations - such...

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Short Criminals: Stature and Crime in Early America

Moehling, Carolyn M.; Bodenhorn, Howard; Price, Gregory N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates incarcerated in Pennsylvania state penitentiaries between 1826 and 1876, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our...

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Theft and Deterrence

Mocan, Naci H.; Harbaugh, William T.; Visser, Michael S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...

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Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections

Manski, Charles; Pepper, John V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Researchers have long used repeated cross sectional observations of homicide rates and sanctions to examine the … homicide. This ambiguity is reduced when we impose stronger assumptions, but inferences are sensitive to the maintained … restrictions. Combining the data with some assumptions implies that the death penalty increases homicide, but other assumptions …

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The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

Bayer, Patrick; Anwar, Shamena; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the <i>jury pool</i> to isolate quasi-random variation in the...

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