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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … since 1934. We then revisit the existing instrumental variables approaches and assess two recent state-specific execution … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267476
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
III, John J. Donohue; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … since 1934. We then revisit the existing instrumental variables approaches and assess two recent state-specific execution … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762061
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Stand your ground laws and homicides
McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287709
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Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides
McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814468
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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory
Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015
of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401647
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Scientific Advancements in Illegal Drugs Production and Institutional Responses: New Psychoactive Substances, Self-Harm, and Violence inside Prisons
D'Este, Rocco - 2022
Incarceration is a crucial part of the scholarly analysis of crime, but what happens inside penal institutions largely remains a 'black box' (Western, 2021). This paper studies the impact of the new psychoactive substances (NPS) epidemic within prisons. NPS are powerful addictive chemical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351787
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The Crime Effect of Refugees
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - 2022
We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351874
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Dynamic Relationships between Criminal Offending and Victimization
Erwin, Christopher; Hennecke, Juliane; Meehan, Lisa; … - 2022
A stylized fact in criminology holds that those who commit crimes are more likely to be victims of crime, and vice versa. We use population-level administrative data of all police investigations in New Zealand to examine the possibility of this victim-offender overlap. Two-way fixed effects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296501
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Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296815
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How do labor markets affect crime? New evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269828