| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17070 |
| DP17070 Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile | |
| Andrés Barrios Fernández; Jorge Garcia-Hombrados | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-03-17 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Rehabilitating convicted criminals is challenging; indeed, an important share of them return to prison in the two years following their release. Thus, finding effective ways of encouraging desistance from crime has become an important policy goal to reduce crime and incarceration rates. This paper uses rich administrative data from Chile to provide causal evidence that the local institutions of the neighborhood to which inmates return after prison matter. Specifically, we show that the opening of an Evangelical church reduces twelve-month reincarceration rates among property crime offenders by 11 percentage points. This effect represents a drop of 18% in the probability of returning to prison for this group of individuals. We discuss three classes of mechanisms---social support, promotion of Evangelical values, and social monitoring---and provide evidence consistent with the first of them. Our results suggest that interventions that give recently released inmates access to local support networks could play an important role in encouraging crime desistance. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Crime desistance Recidivism Neighborhood institutions |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17070-0 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546091 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Andrés Barrios Fernández,Jorge Garcia-Hombrados. DP17070 Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile. 2022. |
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