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100			_aPhilippe, Arnaud _958635
245			_aLearning by offending: How do criminals learn about criminal law?
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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520			_aThis paper investigates how criminals learn about criminal laws. It uses a natural experiment in which sentences were drastically increased for a specific type of recidivism in France. In the short run, advertising the reform did not trigger any change in criminal behavior. However, people who had firsthand experience of the reform learned about it and later committed significantly fewer targeted crimes, but the same number of nontargeted crimes. Learning appears to be limited to individuals with direct experience of the law. While codefendants also learned, other criminal peers and defendants attending the same trial for another case did not.- Reproduced https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20210378
650			_aLaw, Criminology, Legal Reform, Recidivism, Sentencing, Natural Experiment, Criminal Learning, Targeted Crimes, Nontargeted Crimes, Codefendants, Behavioral Economics, France, Judicial Policy, Deterrence _958636
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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