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The effect of criminal conviction on income and the trust `reposed in the workmen'
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The authors examined the effects of conviction on offenders' employment and income and found that first-time conviction reduces employment probabilities by 5 percentage points and has a significantly depressing effect on income (as much as -30 percent), especially for offenders whose pre-conviction jobs apparently require trust or who are sent to prison.Abstract:
Using panel data on federal offenders we examine the effects of conviction on offenders' employment and income. First-time conviction reduces employment probabilities by 5 percentage points and has a significantly depressing effect on income (as much as -30 percent), especially for offenders whose pre-conviction jobs apparently require trust or who are sent to prison. Significant conviction effects on income are large compared with state-imposed penalties.read more
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The growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences
TL;DR: Part of the courts, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Legislation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Race and Ethnicity Commons.
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Criminal Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the effectiveness of policy options for deterring crime and find that some policies that are effective in preventing crime in the short term may be ineffective or even criminogenic in the long run because they may erode the foundation of the deterrent effect-fear of stigmatization.
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The Economics of Privacy
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The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality
TL;DR: The authors found that incarceration reduces ex-inmates' access to the steady jobs that usually produce earnings growth among young men, and that the effect of incarceration on individual wages also increases aggregate race and ethnic wage inequality.
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Incarceration and Stratification
Sara Wakefield,Christopher Uggen +1 more
TL;DR: In the past three decades, incarceration has become an increasingly powerful force for reproducing and reinforcing social inequalities as discussed by the authors, and a new wave of sociological research details the contemporary experiment with mass incarceration in the United States and its attendant effects on social stratification.
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Analysis of Panel Data
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Layoffs and Lemons
Robert Gibbons,Lawrence F. Katz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors provided theoretical and empirical analyses of an asymmetric-information model of layoffs and showed that when firms have discretion with respect to whom to lay off, the market infers that laid-off workers are of low ability.
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Estimating the Economic Model of Crime With Individual Data
TL;DR: In this paper, a variant of the economic model of crime was developed using information on the post-release activities of a sample of men released from the North Carolina prison system, and both the expected certainty and severity of punishment were found to deter criminal activity in a number of instances and a 1 percent increase in certainty is generally found to have a greater effect than a similar increase in severity.
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Crime and the Employment of Disadvantaged Youths
TL;DR: This article examined the magnitude of criminal activity among disadvantaged youths in the 1980s and found that a large proportion of youths who dropped out of high school, particularly black school dropouts, developed criminal records in the decade; and that those who were incarcerated in 1980 or earlier were much less likely to hold jobs than other youths over the entire decade.