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 …

characteristics of the young offenders. The juvenile punishment experiment was initially conducted in certain criminal courts only and … rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the social skills and labor market attachment of young offenders aged 15 to 17. A …

record, on the future criminal and labor market outcomes of first-time felony drug offenders. To accomplish this, we exploit …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past … appear to be the main drivers of Australia's growing prison population. …

research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of … local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the …-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on …

We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the … county jail populations, a moderate decline in the state prison population, a decrease in arrests for property and drug …-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little …

money for an additional minute. The distribution of the disutility of prison is not degenerate, generating heterogeneity in …

I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data … and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing channels, I find that work in unskilled prison jobs impacts convicts on … the reincarceration rate, within three years of release, of convicts on terms longer than six months – because prison work …

Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven …'s criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … assignment of criminal cases to judges who differ systematically in their stringency in sentencing defendants to prison. Using …