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Status-seeking in criminal subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance

Dur, Robert; van der Weele, Joël - 2011

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers for...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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How do labor markets affect crime? New evidence on an old puzzle

Mustard, David B. - 2010

by an intriguing puzzle - the large gap between the theory and empirical work. While the hypothesis that growing labor … consistent evidence in support of this theory. The primary contribution of this chapter is to document how recent research … - primarily since the late 1990s - makes substantial progress in resolving this disconnect between the theory and empirics. To …

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Turning 18: What a difference application of adult criminal law makes

Entorf, Horst - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...

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The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes

Huttunen, Kristiina; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Mälkönen, Ville - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...

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Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk

Salm, Martin; Vollaard, Ben - 2014

We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations, we find that the longer an individual lives in a...

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