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incarceration elasticity of crime: a standalone construct

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the percentage change in crime associated with a change in the prison population, estimated using outside shocks to incarceration.

In criminology, incarceration elasticity of crime refers to the percentage change in crime associated with a change in the prison population, estimated using outside shocks to incarceration. This meaning comes from Levitt (1996) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics.[1]

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  1. Levitt, S. D. (1996). The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), 319-351. https://doi.org/10.2307/2946681

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