The activity aims to introduce students to the reading and understanding of recent scientific studies that examine the effectiveness of laws and other crime prevention measures. Students will therefore learn how an analytical approach can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of legislative and judicial provisions and their social impact. The aim is to familiarize students with the literature and to understand the importance of a scientific approach for understanding particularly pressing issues, such as prison conditions, racial and gender discrimination in the application of laws and the prevention of corruption. No prior mathematical or statistical skills are required.
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Programme
The evaluation is based on class attendance and participation to the discussion.Core Documentation
There is no textbook, only scientific papers that the instructor will upload to the e-learning platform before each class. These papers are listed below as well as in the syllabus.Reference Bibliography
Criminalita' e Immigrazione 1. Oliver Marie and Paolo Pinotti. 2024. "Immigration and crime: An international perspective." Journal of Economic Perspectives 38.1 (2024): 181-200. 2. Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Paolo Pinotti. 2015. "Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7.2 (2015): 175-206. 3. Pinotti, Paolo. 2017. "Clicking on heaven’s door: The effect of immigrant legalization on crime." American Economic Review 107.1 (2017): 138-168. 4. Pinotti, Paolo. 2015. "Immigration enforcement and crime." American Economic Review 105.5 (2015): 205-209. Criminalita' e Istruzione 1. Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi. 2024. "Crime and Education." Forthcoming at Annual Review of Economics. 2. Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti. 2004. "The effect of education on crime: Evidence from prison inmates, arrests, and self-reports." American Economic Review 94.1 (2004): 155-189. 3. Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Sunčica Vujić. 2011 "The crime reducing effect of education." The Economic Journal 121.552 (2011): 463-484. 4. Carmen Villa. 2024. “The effects of youth clubs on education and crime”. No. W24/51. Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2024. Incarcerazione e Criminalita' 1. Charles E. Loeffler and Daniel S. Nagin. 2022. "The impact of incarceration on recidivism." Annual review of criminology 5.1 (2022): 133-152. 2. Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Daniele Terlizzese. 2022. "Leave the door open? Prison conditions and recidivism." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14.4 (2022): 200-233. 3. Nadia Campaniello, Theodoros M. Diasakos, Giovanni Mastrobuoni. 2017. “Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates’ Expected Length of Sentence”. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(2):388-428 4. Francesca Calamunci, Gianmarco Daniele, Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Daniele Terlizzese. 2024. “Women Behind Bars: Do Female-Only Prisons Reduce Recidivism?”. Working Paper. Criminalita' Organizzata e Corruzione 1. Paolo Pinotti. 2015. "The causes and consequences of organised crime: Preliminary evidence across countries." The Economic Journal 125.586 (2015): F158-F174. 2. Gianmarco Daniele and Gemma Dipoppa. 2023. "Fighting organized crime by targeting their revenue: Screening, mafias, and public funds." The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 39.3 (2023): 722-746. 3. Giacomo Battiston, Gianmarco Daniele, Marco Le Moglie, and Paolo Pinotti. 2024. "Fueling Organised Crime: The Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Theft." The Economic Journal (2024): ueae047. 4. Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubín. 2024. "Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence". NBER Working Paper N. 31586.Attendance
In person only. If they cannot join a meeting, students must communicate their absence to the instructor in written.Type of evaluation
The instructor will take not of attendance and participation and, based on these two elements, will decide whether to confer the credits.