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The Economics of Crime and Justice

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Crime in California

Causality and Control Corrections: Dynamics and Economics Correctional Bureaucracy

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Use the California Experience

Apply the conceptual tools developed prior to the midterm• Criminal justice system schematic• crime control technology

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Crime Generation

Crime Control

OffenseRate PerCapita

ExpectedCost ofPunishment

Schematic of the Criminal Justice System: Coordinating CJS

Causes ?!!

(detention,deterrence)

Expenditures

Weak Link

“The Driving Force”

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What are the facts?

Expenditures per capita on the CA criminal justice system

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Expenditures Per Capita in 92 $, California .Criminal Justice System, 1967-68 to 1997-98 . .

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What are the facts?

Expenditures per capita on the CA criminal justice system• Expenditures per capita in real $ are rising

steadily• The big ticket items are enforcement and

corrections

Offenses per capita

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Trends In Crime in California

Source: Crime and Delinquency in California, 2002http://caag.state.ca.us/ Social Welfare Lecture (#1 LP)

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What are the facts?

Offense rates per capita rose rapidly until 1980

Leveled off in the 1980’s Declined in the nineties Are rising again

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California Index Offenses and Criminal Justice System .Expenditures, Both Per Capita, 1967-68 to 1997-98 .

1997-98

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CA Index Offenses Per Capita

1992 $

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Can we identify the causes?

The factors that cause crime might have been getting better in the latter 90’s

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Crime Generation

Crime Control

OffenseRate PerCapita

ExpectedCost ofPunishment

Schematic of the Criminal Justice System; Death Penalty

Causes ?

(detention,deterrence)

Expenditures

Weak Link

Variable, up & down Steady increase

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Crime Generation

Crime Control

OffenseRate PerCapita

ExpectedCost ofPunishment

Schematic of the Criminal Justice System; Jobs and Crime

Causes ?:Economic Conditions

(detention,deterrence)

Expenditures

Weak Link

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Misery Index, California 1952-2003

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unemployment rate

inflation rate

misery index

Jobs and Crime Lec(#2 LP)

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California Misery Index and Crime Index, 1952-2003

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CA Crime Index Per 1000

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Note:

The misery rate is turning up and so is the crime rate in 2002

There is visual evidence that there may be a connection

California: Crime Index Versus Misery Index .

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Jobs and Crime

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CA Crime Index Per 1000 Vs. Misery Index

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Jobs and Crime Lec #2 LP

California: Crime Index Versus Misery Index .

y = -0.1702x 2 + 6.0493x - 16.491

R2 = 0.7761

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Observed Data

Quadratic Fit

Jobs and Crime

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What are the facts?

Control variables• Imprisonment as a measure of detention and

deterrence

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Crime Generation

Crime Control

OffenseRate PerCapita

ExpectedCost ofPunishment

Schematic of the Criminal Justice System: Coordinating CJS

Causes ?!!

(detention,deterrence)

Expenditures

Weak Link

“The Driving Force”

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California Prisoners Per Capita .

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The number of prisoners per capita is leveling off Is this why the crime rate is turning up?

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Prisoners and Offenses, Per Capita, 1952-2000 .

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CA Prisoners Per Capita

Ca Index offenses Per Capita

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Note

When prisoners per capita was flat, offenses per capita was growing

When prisoners per capita started growing, offenses per capita leveled off and then declined

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California: Offenses Per Capita Vs. Prisoners Per Capita .

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Prisoners Per Capita

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What is Affecting Crime Rates?

Economic Conditions? Imprisonment Rates?

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Model SchematicModel Schematic

Crime Generation: California IndexOffenses Per Capita

Causality:California Misery Index

Crime Control: California Prisoners Per Capita

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19551980

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-0.004

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Residual Actual Fitted

California Index Offenses Per Capita

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California Forecasts

Using the Fitted Model to Forecast

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Model SchematicModel Schematic

Crime Generation: California IndexOffenses Per Capita

Causality:California Misery Index

Crime Control: California Prisoners Per Capita

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Causal Model Forecasts: OF

Year CPI Misery PrisonersPer Cap.

OF PerCap.

1998 163.6 5.9 7.81 .004725 .02072

1999 167.5* 5.8* 8.15 .004789# .0278

2000 172.0* 5.8* 8.74 .004857# .0285

Unemployment rate inflation rate, prisoners per capita* Forecasts from Economic Forecasts, 2001-, www.dof.ca.gov# Forecasts from California Department of Corrections

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CAINDXPCFORECAST

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California Index Offenses Per Capita & Forecasts for 2001-2

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California Misery Index and Crime Index, 1952-2002

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CA Crime Index Per 1000

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Forecasting Prisoners Per Capita

Model Schematic• Close the loop: 2-way causality

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Model SchematicModel Schematic

Crime Generation: California IndexOffenses Per Capita

Causality:California Misery Index

Causality:Time Trend

Crime Control: California Prisoners Per Capita

-0.0003

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Change in Prisoners per Capita Forecast

Forecasts for 1999 and 2000 for Annual Increase in Prisoners per Capita

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Forecasts of California Prisoners Per Capita, 1952-2001

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California Prisoners Per Capita

My Forecast

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California Department of Corrections:

Institutional Population

http://www.cdc.state.ca.us/reports/populatn.htm

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Crime in California

Causality and Control Corrections: Dynamics and Economics

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Prison Dynamics and Economics

Admissions * mean years served = prisoners

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Relationships Between Stocks and Flows: Coordinating CJSRelationships Between Stocks and Flows: Coordinating CJS In equilibrium:

• Inflow = Outflow

The outflow is proportional to the stock• Outflow = k * Stock

• constant of proportionality, k, equals one divided by mean time served

– Admits * mean years served = stock of prisoners

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The Stock of Prisoners

Inflow OutflowStock of PrisonersNew

Admissionsfrom Court

Released toParole

Coordinating CJS

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Constraint: Admits per year*Average years served =Prisoners

Average Years Served

Admitsper Year

Coordinating CJS

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California New Admissions from Court, Per Capita .

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California Department of Corrections:

Total Felon Admissions

http://www.cdc.state.ca.us/reports/populatn.htm

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California Index Crimes, Weighted Median Years Served, . Prisoners First Released to Parole

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Prison Realities

We can not build prisons fast enough to increase capacity soon enough

The public wants more convicts sent to prison

But prisons are full So, what happens?

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Consequence

Release violent offenders Innocent children are kidnapped, raped and

murdered: example-Polly Klass

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Consequence

Polly’s father campaigns for three strikes law

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Consequence

More convicts are sent to prison

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Capital constraint: Coordinating CJSCapital constraint: Coordinating CJS admits per capita per year * average years

served = prisoners per capita Prisoners per capita is limited by prison

capacity If you increase admits per capita per year,

then average years served decreases until prison capacity catches up

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Prison Dynamics and Economics

Admissions * mean years served = prisoners• Dynamics

Production Possibility Frontier• Economics

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Abstraction (Model) of the Criminal Justice System

EnforcementProsecutionDefenseCourts

State Prisons

NewAdmits

Mean Years Served

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Admitsper Yearper capita

average years served

Tradeoff Between Criminal Justice System Outputs

tan = admits per year per capita/average years served

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Resource constraintResource constraint

expenditure per capita on CJS = expenditure per capita on enforcement, prosecution, and adjudication plus expenditure per capita on corrections

admits per year per capita depends on expenditures per capita on enforcement, etc.

average years served depends on expenditures per capita on corrections

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AdmitsperCapita

Expenditures per capita on Enforcement

AverageYearsServed

Expenditures percapita on Corrections

productionfunction

productionfunction

Expenditures percapita on Corrections

Expenditures per capita on Enforcement

Total Expenditures per capita on Criminal Justice System

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Total Expenditureper capita on CJScapita on CJS

Expenditures per capita, Corrections

Expenditures per capita, Enforcement

Admits per capita

Average YearsServed

Production Function

Production Function

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Abstraction (Model) of the Criminal Justice System

EnforcementProsecutionDefenseCourts

State Prisons

NewAdmits

Mean Years Served

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Total Expenditureper capita on CJScapita on CJS Expenditures per capita, Corrections

Expenditures per capita, Enforcement

Admits per capita

Average YearsServed

Production Function

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Admitsper Yearper capita,AD

average years served, S

A Shifting Mix In Criminal Justice System Outputs

tan = admits per year per capita/average years served

Facts1. spend more2. Admit more3. shorter time served

Prison Capacity Constraint

California: New Admits per Capita Vs. Median Years Males .

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Crime in California

Causality and Control Corrections: Dynamics and Economics Correctional Bureaucracy

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California Corrections BureaucracyCalifornia Corrections Bureaucracy Prisoner and Parole Populations

• Stocks

Felon New Admissions From Court• Inflow to Prison

Prisoners Released to Parole• Outflow from Prison/Inflow to Parole

Parole Violators• Outflow from Parole

Discharges from Parole and Deaths• Outflow from Parole

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California Department of Corrections

1996

California Department of Corrections

1996

Prisoners145,565

Parolees100,935

Felon NewAdmits46,487

Releases to Parole111,532

Dischargedand Died27,691

57,984Parole Violators Returned to Custody

Parole Violators With a New Term 17,525

Parolees AtLarge18,034

Discharged and Died3,984

Absconded29,376

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Correctional Trends in California: Custodial Populations

Correctional Trends in California: Custodial Populations

Prisoners Per Capita• Institutional Population

• Felons

• Civil Narcotics Addicts

Parolees Per Capita• Parole and Outpatient Population Supervised in

California

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California Prisoners and Parolees, Per Capita .

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Correctional Trends in California: Inflows to Prison

Correctional Trends in California: Inflows to Prison

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Two Policy IssuesTwo Policy Issues

Composition of New Admissions from Court Large Volume of Parole Violators Returned to

Prison

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California Misery Index and Crime Index, 1952-2002

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CA Crime Index Per 1000

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