Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Di Tella, Rafael; Schargrodsky, Ernesto
• 署名单位: Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/669786
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 28-73
• 关键词: LONG-TERM; incarceration; DETERRENT; crime; RECONCEPTUALIZATION; imprisonment; PUNISHMENT; EMPLOYMENT; disparity; HISTORY

摘要

We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the rearrest rates of two groups: individuals released from prison and individuals released from electronic monitoring. Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, and ideological differences across judges translate into large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring to an otherwise similar population. Using these peculiarities of the Argentine setting, we argue that there is a large, negative causal effect on criminal recidivism of treating individuals with electronic monitoring relative to prison.