First-Day Criminal Recidivism

Martín Rossi and Ignacio Munyo

No 113, Working Papers from Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia

Abstract: We report that on any given day the number of inmates released from incarceration significantly affects the number of offenses committed this day, and we name this as first-day recidivism. Our estimates of this novel approach to study early recidivism are robust to a variety of alternative model specifications. We then show that first-day recidivism can be eliminated by an increase in the gratuity provided to prisoners at the time of their release. A simple cost-benefit analysis shows that increasing the gratuity at release is a very efficient policy.

Keywords: Recidivism; property crime; liquidity constraints (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2014-06, Revised 2014-09
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