Code and Data for: Learning by Offending: How do Criminals Learn About Criminal Law?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Arnaud Philippe, University of Bristol

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Project Citation:

Philippe, Arnaud. Code and Data for: Learning by Offending: How do Criminals Learn About Criminal Law? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192283V1

Project Description

Summary: This project investigates how criminals learn about criminal law. It uses the case of a natural experiment in which sentences were drastically increased for a specific type of recidivism in France. In the short run, media coverage of the reform did not seem to affect criminal behavior. However, people who had first-hand experience of the law later committed significantly fewer targeted crimes but the same number of nontargeted crimes. This pattern is consistent with a behavioral reaction based on a better understanding of the reform. This learning effect does not spread easily. While codefendants also learned, other criminal peers and defendants in the courtroom at the same time, but for a different case, did not.
This deposit contains code, nomenclature and read me file to replicate the findings

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Crime; learning; peer influence

JEL Classification:
K14 Criminal Law

Geographic Coverage: France

Data Type(s): program source code

Methodology

Data Source: French Ministry of Justice: criminal record

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals

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V1 [2024-07-10]

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