First-day criminal recidivism

Ignacio Munyo and Martín Rossi

Journal of Public Economics, 2015, vol. 124, issue C, 81-90

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)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.002

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