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More Time, Less Crime? Estimating the Incapacitative Effect of Sentence Enhancements by Owens, Emily G.

“…Sentence enhancements may reduce crime both by deterring potential criminals and by incapacitating previous offenders, removing these possible recidivists from…”
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Testing the School-to-Prison Pipeline by Owens, Emily G.

“…The School-to-Prison Pipeline is a social phenomenon where students become formally involved with the cnminal justice system as a result of school policies…”
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YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS: LOCALIZED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY by Freedman, Matthew, Owens, Emily G.

“…We exploit a sudden shock to demand for a subset of low-wage workers generated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program in San Antonio, Texas,…”
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Low-income housing development and crime by Freedman, Matthew, Owens, Emily G.

“…This paper examines the effect of rental housing development subsidized by the federal government’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program on local…”
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COPS and crime by Evans, William N., Owens, Emily G.

“…The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 established the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program that provided grants to states…”
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Learning the ropes: General experience, task-Specific experience, and the output of police officers by DeAngelo, Gregory, Owens, Emily G.

“…•Disentangle general from task-specific performance for law enforcement.•Use quasi-exogenous shocks in the form of law changes to identify impact of experience…”
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Editorial and Technological Workflow Tools to Promote Website Quality by Morton-Owens, Emily G

“…Library websites are an increasingly visible representation of the library as an institution, which makes website quality an important way to communicate…”
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Does federal financial aid affect college enrollment? Evidence from drug offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998 by Lovenheim, Michael F., Owens, Emily G.

“…In 2001, amendments to the Higher Education Act made people convicted of drug offenses ineligible for federal financial aid for up to two years after their…”
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The American Temperance Movement and Market-Based Violence by Owens, Emily G.

“…The net impact of market legality on crime is ambiguous if consumption of the illegally traded good causes violence. With modern crime data, I show that drug…”
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Framing Punishment: Incarceration, Recommended Sentences, and Recidivism by Bushway, Shawn D., Owens, Emily G.

“…No consensus has emerged about how, or even if, incarceration affects the behavior of convicted offenders. One unexplored mechanism involves the possibility…”
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Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors by Bushway, Shawn D., Owens, Emily G., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…The extent to which rules set by the legislature bind or influence decisions regarding sentence length is central to institutional design and to determining…”
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Implementing Twitter in a Health Sciences Library by Cuddy, Colleen, Graham, Jamie, Morton-Owens, Emily G.

“…The NYU Health Sciences Libraries created an account on Twitter, a microblogging service, as a new outreach tool marketed to students, faculty, and staff. The…”
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Trends at a Glance: A Management Dashboard of Library Statistics by Morton-Owens, Emily, Hanson, Karen L

“…Systems librarians at an academic medical library created a management data dashboard. Charts were designed using best practices for data visualization and…”
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Implementing Open-Source Software for Three Core Library Functions: A Stage-by-Stage Comparison by Morton-Owens, Emily G., Hanson, Karen L., Walls, Ian

“…An academic medical library developed new open-source systems for three of its core functions over an 18-month period. The authors compare and contrast their…”
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Truthiness in Punishment: The Far Reach of Truth-in-Sentencing Laws in State Courts by Owens, Emily G.

“…Truth‐in‐sentencing (TIS) laws require that violent felons serve large fractions of their sentences behind bars. In practice, the scope of these laws may be…”
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Editors' Introduction to Judgment by the Numbers: Converting Qualitative to Quantitative Judgments in Law by Hans, Valerie P., Rachlinski, Jeffrey J., Owens, Emily G.

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