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The Economics of Crime and Justice
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Tu Feb 7, 07
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Outline
The Meth Epidemic Crime in California
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Front Line: The Meth Epidemic http://www.pbs.org Assignment for class 1.5 million addicts in the US
• Worldwide more addicts than for horse and coke, combined Different than heroin and cocaine
• No natural supply• Synthetic• 9 factories in the world manufacture pseudoephedrin
Could focus on Supply• Limit availability of pseudoephedrin• Roadblock: pharmaceutical lobby
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Brain scan studyAt UCLA
Effect onThe body
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50 % of childrenIn Oregon are thereBecause of meth-Addicted parents
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Crime in California
Causality and Control Corrections: Dynamics and Economics Correctional Bureaucracy
Per Capita Crime Rates and Imprisonment Rates, California and US
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FBI Crime Index Per Capita, US
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Use the California Experience
Crime rates Have Fallen. Why Haven’t Imprisonment rates?
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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Crime in California 2005
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Crime in California 2005
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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 .
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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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California Unemployment Rate and Inflation Rate, 1952-2004
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CA Crime Index Per 1000 and Misery Index (Percent), 1952-2004
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Note:
The misery index bottoms out in 1998 and the crime rate bottoms out in 1999
There is visual evidence that there may be a connection
California: Crime Index Versus Misery Index .
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CA Crime Index Per 1000 Vs. Misery Index
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California: Crime Index Versus Misery Index .
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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, 1952-2004
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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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California Offenses and Prisoners Per Capita, 1952-2004
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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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What is Affecting Crime Rates?
Economic Conditions? Imprisonment Rates? Both?
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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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CA Crime Index Per Capita (t) = 0.039 + 0.00034*Misery Index (t) –3.701*Prisoners Per Capita (t) + e(t)
where e(t) = 0.954*e(t-1)
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Residual Actual Fitted
CA Crime Index, CA Prisoners and CA Misery Index
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Ln CA Crime Index Per Capita (t) = -5.25 + 0.17*ln Misery Index (t)-0.22 ln Prisoners Per capita (t) +e(t)
where e(t) = 0.93 e(t-1)
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Residual Actual Fitted
Logarithms of the CA Crime Index Per Capita, CA PrisonersPer Capita, Misery Index
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California Forecasts
Using the Fitted Model to 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
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Coordinating CJS
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California Department of Corrections:
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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
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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
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Production Function
Production Function
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Abstraction (Model) of the Criminal Justice System
EnforcementProsecutionDefenseCourts
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Total Expenditureper capita on CJScapita on CJS Expenditures per capita, Corrections
Expenditures per capita, Enforcement
Admits per capita
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Production Function
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Admitsper Yearper capita,AD
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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
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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
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California Department of Corrections
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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
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Parolees Per Capita• Parole and Outpatient Population Supervised in
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Correctional Trends in California: Inflows to Prison
Correctional Trends in California: Inflows to Prison
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CAOFPC FORECAST
CA Crime Rate Forecast 2006, 2007
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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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Forecasting Prisoners Per Capita
Model Schematic• Close the loop: 2-way causality
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Causal Model Forecasts: OF
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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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Model SchematicModel Schematic
Crime Generation: California IndexOffenses Per Capita
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Crime Control: California Prisoners Per Capita
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Crime Generation: California IndexOffenses Per Capita
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Forecasts of California Prisoners Per Capita, 1952-2001
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