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Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century America by Moehling, Carolyn, Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…The major government commissions on immigration and crime in the early twentieth century relied on evidence that suffered from aggregation bias and the absence…”
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Measuring and Explaining Charge Bargaining by Piehl, Anne Morrison, Bushway, Shawn D.

“…Charge bargaining is a potentially important form of discretion in criminal sentencing that is obscured in many studies of sentencing outcomes. Our procedure…”
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Erratum to: Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century America by Moehling, Carolyn, Piehl, Anne Morrison

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Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire by BRAGA, ANTHONY A., KENNEDY, DAVID M., WARING, ELIN J., PIEHL, ANNE MORRISON

“…Operation Ceasefire is a problem-oriented policing intervention aimed at reducing youth homicide and youth firearms violence in Boston. It represented an…”
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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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Judging Judicial Discretion: Legal Factors and Racial Discrimination in Sentencing by Bushway, Shawn D., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…Variation in sentencing outcomes represents the actions of a number of members of the criminal justice system. To isolate the part of the variation that is due…”
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Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs by Piehl, Anne Morrison, Cooper, Suzanne J., Braga, Anthony A., Kennedy, David M.

“…A youth homicide reduction initiative in Boston in the mid-1990s poses particular difficulties for program evaluation because it did not have a control group…”
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Recent Immigrants: Unexpected Implications for Crime and Incarceration by Butcher, Kristin F., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…This analysis of data from the 5% 1980 and 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples shows that among 18-40-year-old men in the United States, immigrants were less…”
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THE CHALLENGE OF MASS INCARCERATION by PIEHL, ANNE MORRISON

“…Piehl comments on James P. Lynch and William J. Sabol's study entitled Assessing the Effects of Mass Incarceration on Informal Social Control in Communities,…”
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Popular support for the prison build-up by Useem, Bert, Liedka, Raymond V., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…A substantial build-up in prison capacity and the use of incarceration in the USA began in the mid-1970s and continued through to the end of the century…”
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THE CRIME-CONTROL EFFECT OF INCARCERATION: DOES SCALE MATTER? by LIEDKA, RAYMOND V., PIEHL, ANNE MORRISON, USEEM, BERT

“…Research Summary: Several prominent empirical studies estimate models of a constant proportional effect of prison on crime, finding that effect is substantial…”
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Determinants of Civil Rights Filings in Federal District Court by Jail and Prison Inmates by Piehl, Anne Morrison, Schlanger, Margo

“…This article uses panel data estimation techniques to examine the relation between the number of federal court civil filings by inmates and jail and state…”
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Comparing Apples to Oranges: Differences in Women’s and Men’s Incarceration and Sentencing Outcomes by Butcher, Kristin F., Park, Kyung H., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…Using detailed administrative records, we find that, on average, women receive lighter sentences in comparison with men along both extensive and intensive…”
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Unwinding Mass Incarceration by LOBUGLIO, STEFAN F., PIEHL, ANNE MORRISON

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Unwinding Mass Incarceration by Lobuglio, Stefan F, Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…Consensus is now emerging that the United States should move away from its heavy reliance on mass incarceration, which has ramped up over the past 40 years,…”
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Unwinding mass incarceration: more must be done to help the large number of people already in the criminal justice system successfully reenter society--or risk undermining support for reform by Lobuglio, Stefan F, Piehl, Anne Morrison

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Immigrant assimilation into US prisons, 1900-1930 by Moehling, Carolyn M., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One…”
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Cross-city evidence on the relationship between immigration and crime by Butcher, Kristin F., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…Public concerns about the costs of immigration and crime are high, and sometimes overlapping. This article investigates the relationship between immigration…”
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Location, Location, Location: The Impact of Guideline Grid Location on the Value of Sentencing Enhancements by Bushway, Shawn D., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…A long literature provides empirical estimates of differential treatment (by race and other factors) in the criminal justice system, taking sentencing rules as…”
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What Do Prosecutors Maximize? An Analysis of the Federalization of Drug Crimes by Glaeser, Edward L., Kessler, Daniel P., Piehl, Anne Morrison

“…Recent legislation has expanded the jurisdiction of the federal government over crimes that were traditionally prohibited only by state law. We model the…”
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