The impact of low-priority laws on criminal activity: Evidence from California

Contemporary Economic Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 239-252

  Ross, Amanda ^a   Walker, Anne ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966526811     PISSN: 10743529     EISSN: 14657287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/coep.12179     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Autor, D. “Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing.” Journal of Labor Economics, 21(1), 2003, 1–42.
2. Baicker, K., and M. Jacobson. “Finders Keepers: Forfeiture Laws, Policing Incentives, and Local Budgets.” Journal of Public Economics, 91(11–12), 2007, 2113–36.
3. Becker, G. S. “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach.” Journal of Political Economy, 76(2), 1968, 169–217.
4. Benson, B. L., and D. W. Rasmussen. “Relationship between Illicit Drug Enforcement Policy and Property Crimes.” Contemporary Economic Policy, 9(4), 1991, 106–15.
5. Benson, B. L., I. Kim, D. W. Rasmussen, and T. W. Zuehlke. “Is Property Crime Caused by Drug Use or by Drug Enforcement Policy?” Applied Economics, 24(7), 1992, 679–92.
6. Benson, B. L., I. Kim, and D. W. Rasmussen. “Estimating Deterrence Effects: A Public Choice Perspective on the Economics of Crime Literature.” Southern Economic Journal, 61(1), 1994, 161–68.
7. Benson, B. L., D. W. Rasmussen, and D. L. Sollars. “Police Bureaucracies, Their Incentives, and theWar onDrugs.” Public Choice, 83(1–2), 1995, 21–45.
8. Benson, B. L., D. W. Rasmussen, and I. Kim. “Deterrence and Public Policy: Trade-offs in the Allocation of Police Resources.” International Review of Law and Economics, 18(1), 1998, 77–100.
9. Cameron, A. C., J. B. Gelbach, and D. L. Miller. “Robust Inference with Multi-Way Clustering.” NBER Technical Working Paper 327, 2006.
10. Cameron, S. “The Economics of Crime Deterrence: A Survey of Theory and Evidence.” Kyklos, 41(2), 1988, 301–23.
11. Corman, H., and H. N. Mocan. “A Time-Series Analysis of Crime and Drug Use in New York City.” American Economic Review, 90, 2000, 584–604.
12. Cornwell, C., andW. N. Trumbull. “Estimating the Economic Model of Crime with Panel Data.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 76(2), 1994, 360–66.
13. Dezhbakhsh, H., and J. Shepherd. “The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Evidence from a ‘Judicial Experiment’.” Economic Inquiry, 44, 2006, 512–35.
14. Di Tella, R., and E. Schargrodsky. “Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack.” American Economic Review, 94, 2004, 115–33.
15. Draca, M., S. J. Machin, and R. Witt. “Panic in the Streets of London: Police, Crime, and the July 2005 Terrorist Attacks.” American Economic Review, 101, 2011, 2157–81.
16. Ehrlich, I. “The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death.” American Economic Review, 65, 1975, 397–417.
17. Ehrlich, I. “Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Some Further Thoughts and Evidence.” Journal of Political Economy, 85, 1977, 741–88.
18. Helland, E., and A. Tabarrok. “Does Three Strikes Deter? A Non-Parametric Estimation.” Journal of Human Resources, 22, 2007, 309–30.
19. Iyengar, R. “I’d Rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of California’s Three Strikes Laws.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Number W13784, 2008.
20. Klick, J., and A. Tabarrok. “Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime.” Journal of Law and Economics, 48, 2005, 267–79.
21. Levitt, S. D. “Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime.” American Economic Review, 87(3), 1997, 270–90.
22. Levitt, S. D. “Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply.” American Economic Review, 92(4), 2002, 1244–50.
23. Mast, B. D., B. L. Benson, and D. W. Rasmussen. “Entrepreneurial Police and Drug Enforcement Policy.” Public Choice, 104(3–4), 2000, 285–308.
24. McCrary, J. “Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Comment.” American Economic Review, 92(4), 2002, 1236–43.
25. Mocan, H., and R. Gittings. “Getting Off Death Row: Commuted Sentences and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment.” Journal of Law and Economics, 46, 2003, 453–78.
26. Ross, A. “Crime, Police, and Truth-in-Sentencing: The Impact of State Sentencing Policy on Local Communities.” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42, 2012, 144–52.
27. Shepard, E., and P. Blackley. “The Impact of Marijuana Law Enforcement in an Economic Model of Crime.” Journal of Drug Issues, 37(2), 2007, 403–24.
28. Shepherd, J. “Police, Prosecutors, Criminals, and Determinate Sentencing: The Truth about Truth-In-Sentencing Laws.” Journal of Law and Economics, 45, 2002, 509–34.
29. Sollars, D. L., B. L. Benson, and D. W. Rasmussen. “Drug Enforcement and the Deterrence of Property Crime among Local Jurisdictions.” Public Finance Quarterly, 22(1), 1994, 22–45.