Criminal capital persistence: Evidence from 90,000 inmates’ releases

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dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidad EAFITspa
dc.contributor.authorEscobar Bernal, Maria Antonia
dc.contributor.authorTobón Zapata, Santiago
dc.contributor.authorVanegas Arias, Martín
dc.coverage.spatialMedellín de: Lat: 06 15 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 6.2500 decimal degrees Long: 075 36 00 W degrees minutes Long: -75.6000 decimal degreeseng
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-22T19:45:59Z
dc.date.available2021-06-22T19:45:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-22
dc.description.abstractWe study persistence in criminal capital by looking at the effects of inmates’ releaseson crime around prisons in Colombia. Leveraging detailed geographic and temporal information on the universe of releases from all prisons and crime reports, we find that property crimes are 16% higher around prisons on days inmates are released. Inmates specialized in property crimes drive the impacts. Improvements in non-criminal human capital or longer incarceration spells do not mitigate these effects. These results suggest the specific deterrence or rehabilitation effects of incarceration are weak for individuals with higher initial levels of criminal capital. We also document two externalities resulting from incarcerating specialized criminals. First, we find evidence of adverse peer effects. Second, in a back-of-the-envelope estimation, we document that crime incidence due to prison location drops property values and property tax revenues. Our results raise concerns about the usefulness of incarceration in its most widely adopted form.eng
dc.identifier.jelD04
dc.identifier.jelH41
dc.identifier.jelJ24
dc.identifier.jelK14
dc.identifier.jelK42
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/29884
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherUniversidad EAFITspa
dc.publisher.departmentEscuela de Economía y Finanzasspa
dc.rights.accessrightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesseng
dc.rights.localAcceso abiertospa
dc.subject.keywordcrimespa
dc.subject.keywordviolencespa
dc.subject.keywordrecidivismspa
dc.subject.keywordprisonsspa
dc.subject.keywordColombiaspa
dc.titleCriminal capital persistence: Evidence from 90,000 inmates’ releaseseng
dc.typeworkingPapereng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPapereng
dc.type.hasVersiondrafteng
dc.type.localDocumento de trabajo de investigaciónspa

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