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Results for juvenile offenders (germany)
2 results foundAuthor: Entorf, Horst Title: Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes Summary: This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to adult penal law, but rather implies a shift to a discretionary system of both adult and juvenile law, dependent on the courts' impression of moral and mental personal development of the adolescent at the time of the act. The German legal system draws the line of adulthood at some fuzzy age interval between 18 and 21, which is well above the thresholds prevailing in the U.S. (16 to 18 years, state specific) and other countries such that the German evidence entails some external evidence to the previous literature mostly relying on U.S. data. Based on a unique inmate survey and two-equation models controlling for selectivity problems, results show that application of adult criminal law instead of juvenile penal law decreases expected recidivism of adolescents. Details: Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor, 2011. 30p. Source: Internet Resource: IZA Discussion Paper No. 5434: Accessed March 21, 2012 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1745709 Year: 2011 Country: Germany URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1745709 Shelf Number: 124624 Keywords: Criminal LawJuvenile Justice SystemsJuvenile Offenders (Germany)Recidivism |
Author: Pichler, Stefan Title: Juvenile Law and Recidivism in Germany - New Evidence from the Old Continent Summary: Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the effect of the criminal justice system on juvenile recidivism. Using a unique sample of German inmates, we are able to disentangle the selection into criminal and juvenile law from the subsequent recidivism decision of the inmate. We base our identification strategy on two distinct methods. First, we jointly estimate selection and recidivism in a bivariate probit model. In a second step, we use a discontinuity in law assignment created by German legislation and apply a (fuzzy) regression discontinuity design. In contrast to the bulk of the literature, which mainly relies on US data, we do not find that the application of criminal law increases juvenile recidivism. Rather, our results suggest that sentencing adolescents as adults reduces recidivism in Germany. Details: Unpublished paper, 2011. 45p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 16, 2013 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1986789 Year: 2011 Country: Germany URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1986789 Shelf Number: 129409 Keywords: Juvenile Court TransfersJuvenile Offenders (Germany)Recidivism |