Sentence Reductions and Recidivism: Lessons from the Bastille Day Quasi-Experiment

IZA

This 39-page discussion paper uses the collective pardon granted to individuals incarcerated in French prisons on the 14th of July, 1996 to identify the effect of collective sentence reductions on recidivism

Eric Maurin, Aurelie Ouss

Crime, Law & Order Posted: 2009-02-25