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The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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Drago, Francesco, Galbiati, Roberto, Vertova, Pietro·2009·Journal of Political Economy
DOI 10.1086/599286
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The Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006 represents a natural experiment to analyze the behavioral response of individuals to an exogenous manipulation of prison sentences. On the basis of a unique data set on the postrelease behavior of former inmates, we find that 1 month less time served in prison commuted into 1 month more in expected sentence for future crimes reduces the probability of recidivism by 0.16 percentage points. From this result we estimate an elasticity of average recidivism with respect to the expected punishment equal to −0.74 for a 7‐month period.

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Authors
Drago, F., Galbiati, R., & Vertova, P.
Venue
Journal of Political Economy
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2009-04
Volume
117
Issue
2
Pages
257-280
ISSN
  • 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-534X
DOI
10.1086/599286
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295
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journal article
Language
en
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