Innocent Man Who Spent 25 Years in Prison Tries to Hold Prosecutor Accountable
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Innocent Man Who Spent 25 Years in Prison Tries to Hold Prosecutor Accountable
Prisoners’ Dilemma
Posted: May 31, 2011 Filed under: Courts, Game Theory, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Prisoners’ Dilemma
Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring — by Rafael Di Tella, Ernesto Schargrodsky
Posted: December 28, 2009 Filed under: Courts, Crime, Prison, Punishment, Uncategorized 1 Comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring — by Rafael Di Tella, Ernesto Schargrodsky
We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the recidivism rate of former prisoners is 22% while that for those a€treated’ with electronic monitoring is 13% (40% lower). We convince ourselves that the estimates are causal using peculiarities of the Argentine setting. For example, we have almost as much information as the judges have when deciding on the allocation of EM; the program is rationed to only some offenders; and some institutional features (such as bad prison conditions) convert ideological differences across judges (to which detainees are randomly matched) into very large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring.
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