seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large … increase in NPS availability and an alarming correlation with the steep rise in harm and violence behind bars. I then evaluate … NPS. The analysis exploits cross-prison variation in the initial size of the drug market and shows high-intensity NPS …

females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the … decisions. We treat months in prison as a censored variable in order to account for the frequent outcome of no prison time …

This paper assesses the effect of the creation of specialized intimate partner violence (IPV) courts on the reporting …

crimes, and focus on mothers who lived in a home where an assault was reported during their pregnancies. We compare these … mothers to women who lived in a home with an assault that took place shortly after the birth.We find that assaults in the 3rd … cost per assault during pregnancy of $41,771, and a total annual cost of over $4.25 billion when scaled by the national …

a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun …

Domestic violence remains a serious public problem, especially in Hispanic communities, where one in three women are … victims of domestic violence in their lifetimes. Yet, less than 50 percent of Hispanic women report the incidents, indicating … in curtailing domestic violence, whether it is by promoting the early reporting of incidents, inhibiting potential …

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of …