First-day criminal recidivism

Munyo, Ignacio; Rossi, Máximo

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.002

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“…This result has important implications for state SNAP bans and for reentry policy in general. In fact, it is consistent with recent work by Munyo and Rossi (2015) showing that a disproportionate amount of recidivism happens on the first day of release and that first-day recidivism can be almost completely stifled by giving releasees a sufficient monetary stipend. Their work suggests that financial support can ease reentry.…”

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Snapping Back: Food Stamp Bans and Criminal Recidivism

Tuttle

2019

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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I estimate the effect of access to food stamps on criminal recidivism. In 1996, a federal welfare reform imposed a lifetime ban from food stamps on convicted drug felons. Florida modified this ban, restricting it to drug traffickers who commit their offense on or after August 23, 1996. I exploit this sharp cutoff in a regression discontinuity design and find that the ban increases recidivism among drug traffickers. The increase is driven by financially motivated crimes, suggesting that the cut in benefits causes ex-convicts to return to crime to make up for the lost transfer income. (JEL H75, I38, K42)

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Snapping Back: Food Stamp Bans and Criminal Recidivism

Tuttle

2019

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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“…We find that the effect of pretrial detention on pretrial rearrest is a 26.1 percentage points reduction, even larger than that on total rearrest. This result is consistent with incapacitation explaining our estimated negative effect of prison on crime, and is in line with previous research that has provided evidence on the importance of this mechanism for crime prevention (see Buonanno and Raphael 2013, Barbarino and Mastrobuoni 2014, Munyo and Rossi 2015. However, we also find that pretrial detention increases post-trial crime by 7.1 percentage points, implying that post-release effects are likely to partly offset the incapacitation mechanism.…”

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Pretrial Detention and Rearrest: Evidence From Brazil

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In most legal systems, detaining individuals pretrial is a common practice. Pretrial detention prevents that defendants commit crimes while they wait for their trials, but prison experiences can also encourage future criminal activity. In this paper, we use novel data on detention hearings and in flagrante delicto arrests in the state of Rio de Janeiro to assess the effect of pretrial detention on future crime. Since detention assignment is endogenous to defendants' characteristics, we adopt an instrumental variable approach that exploits randomly assigned judges who differ in terms of their idiosyncratic tendencies of ordering pretrial detention. Our findings suggest that pretrial incarceration reduces rearrest in the medium term, and that this effect is entirely driven by incapacitation effects. We also provide evidence that pretrial detention increases the probability and the severity of post-release crime.

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“…contaminating the estimation of the effect by other events that took place well after or before the release (for a similar approach, see Munyo and Rossi, 2015). The final sample consists of 321 projects.…”

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Monitoring Public Investment: The Impact of MapaRegalías in Colombia

Lauletta¹,

Rossi²,

Vieyra³

et al. 2019

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the cost incurred by public officials and citizens when monitoring the use of royalties. The main finding is that after the release of Mapa-Regalías, public investment projects financed with royalties showed an average increase in efficiency of execution of 7.996 percentage points.T his paper analyzes the impact of Mapa-Regalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to reduce

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First-day criminal recidivism

Cited by 28 publications

References 25 publications

Snapping Back: Food Stamp Bans and Criminal Recidivism

Snapping Back: Food Stamp Bans and Criminal Recidivism

Pretrial Detention and Rearrest: Evidence From Brazil

Monitoring Public Investment: The Impact of MapaRegalías in Colombia

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