| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22511 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22511 |
| The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges | |
| Will Dobbie; Jacob Goldin; Crystal Yang | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-08-15 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pre-trial detention on defendants. This paper uses the detention tendencies of quasi-randomly assigned bail judges to estimate the causal effects of pre-trial detention on subsequent defendant outcomes. Using data from administrative court and tax records, we find that being detained before trial significantly increases the probability of a conviction, primarily through an increase in guilty pleas. Pre-trial detention has no detectable effect on future crime, but decreases pre-trial crime and failures to appear in court. We also find suggestive evidence that pre-trial detention decreases formal sector employment and the receipt of employment- and tax-related government benefits. We argue that these results are consistent with (i) pre-trial detention weakening defendants' bargaining position during plea negotiations, and (ii) a criminal conviction lowering defendants' prospects in the formal labor market. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Discrimination ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22511 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580184 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Will Dobbie,Jacob Goldin,Crystal Yang. The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges. 2016. |
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| w22511.pdf（565KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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