We estimate the effect of losing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits at age 18 on
criminal justice and employment outcomes over the next two decades. To estimate this …

Classic criminological scholarship emphasizes sibling correlations in delinquency, criminal
offending, and system contact. This foundational work, however, has mostly not translated to …

Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or coresident
adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's …

Mass incarceration has fundamental adverse effects that include weakening families and
intimate relationships, altering children's life chances, and undermining communities …

We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in
North Carolina and Ohio using two quasi-experimental research designs: discontinuities in …

We estimate the impact of financial sanctions in the US criminal justice system, leveraging
nine natural experiments in a regression discontinuity design framework across a diverse …

Abstract Millions in the United States face financial sanctions in the criminal court system
each year, totaling over $27 billion in overall criminal debt. In this study, we leverage five …

Researchers working with administrative crime data often must classify offense narratives
into a common scheme for analysis purposes. No comprehensive standard currently exists …

This study provides the first empirical evidence on the extent of self‐employment within the
US justice‐involved population. Using linked tax return and Criminal Justice Administrative …

ABSTRACT The United States criminal justice system is characterized by substantial
disparities in outcomes across racial and ethnic groups. Understanding these disparities …