Impact of a judicial system reform on police behavior : evidence on juvenile crime in Colombia
This paper uses a natural experiment to identify the impact of a judicial system reform on police behavior. The study finds that, after a decrease in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, arrest rates for adolescents in most misdemeanor crimes decreased due to a chang...
- Autores:
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Ibáñez Londoño, Ana María
Ritterbusch, Amy Elizabeth
Rodríguez Orgales, Catherine
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- 2017
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- Universidad de los Andes
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- Behavior
Police officers
Crime
Policía - Relaciones con la comunidad - Colombia
Delincuencia juvenil - Colombia
Reforma judicial - Colombia
K14, K42
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This paper uses a natural experiment to identify the impact of a judicial system reform on police behavior. The study finds that, after a decrease in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, arrest rates for adolescents in most misdemeanor crimes decreased due to a change in police behavior. The magnitude of this effect ranged between 0.08 to 0.321 standard deviations. The uncertainty on how to operate the new system, the lack of training, and the potential disciplinary sanctions led police officials to reduce arrest rates. Nonetheless, police forces learned gradually how to operate within the new system and adjusted their operations, countervailing the initial negative impact on arrest rates. We present suggestive evidence that the reduction in arrest rates and the lower sanctions increased crime incidents in cities with a large proportion of adolescents in their population. Qualitative evidence collected in focus groups with police officials supports the principal quantitative findings and contextualize the obstacles that led to the decrease in arrest rates and the perceived increase of juvenile crime based on the officials' experiences in the streets. |
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Al consultar y hacer uso de este recurso, está aceptando las condiciones de uso establecidas por los autores.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Ibáñez Londoño, Ana María8766500Ritterbusch, Amy Elizabeth9481482f-8260-4aa6-b05b-ef48f0215071500Rodríguez Orgales, Catherine102355002018-09-27T16:55:53Z2018-09-27T16:55:53Z20171657-5334http://hdl.handle.net/1992/86861657-719110.57784/1992/8686instname:Universidad de los Andesreponame:Repositorio Institucional Sénecarepourl:https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/This paper uses a natural experiment to identify the impact of a judicial system reform on police behavior. The study finds that, after a decrease in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, arrest rates for adolescents in most misdemeanor crimes decreased due to a change in police behavior. The magnitude of this effect ranged between 0.08 to 0.321 standard deviations. The uncertainty on how to operate the new system, the lack of training, and the potential disciplinary sanctions led police officials to reduce arrest rates. Nonetheless, police forces learned gradually how to operate within the new system and adjusted their operations, countervailing the initial negative impact on arrest rates. We present suggestive evidence that the reduction in arrest rates and the lower sanctions increased crime incidents in cities with a large proportion of adolescents in their population. Qualitative evidence collected in focus groups with police officials supports the principal quantitative findings and contextualize the obstacles that led to the decrease in arrest rates and the perceived increase of juvenile crime based on the officials' experiences in the streets.Este artículo usa un experimento natural para identificar el impacto de una reforma del sistema judicial sobre el comportamiento policial. El estudio encuentra que, tras una caída en la severidad de las sanciones judiciales impuestas a los adolescentes que participan en actividades criminales, las tasas de arresto en la mayoría de delitos disminuye debido a un cambio en el comportamiento policial. La magnitud de la caída varía entre 0,08 to 0,321 desviaciones estándar. La incertidumbre de los agentes de la policía de como operar en el nuevo sistema, la falta de capacitación y las posibles sanciones disciplinarias provocó una caída en las tasas de arresto. Pese al efecto negativo inicial, la policía aprendió gradualmente a operar con el nuevo sistema y ajustó sus procedimientos, lo cual contrarrestó el impacto negativo inicial en las tasas de arresto. El artículo presenta además evidencia que sugiere que, tras la caída en las tasas de arresto y las menores sanciones, aumentó el crimen en las ciudades con un mayor porcentaje de adolescentes en su población. La evidencia cualitativa que recogimos en grupos focales con agentes de la policía corrobora los resultados econométricos y provee un contexto para entender los obstáculos que llevaron a una caída en las tasas de arresto y las percepciones de incremento en el crimen.36 páginasapplication/pdfengUniversidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDEDocumentos CEDE No. 17 Febrero de 2017https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000089/015428.htmlImpact of a judicial system reform on police behavior : evidence on juvenile crime in ColombiaImpacto de una reforma al judicial sobre el comportamiento policial : evidencia del crimen juvenil en ColombiaDocumento de trabajoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85Texthttps://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/WPBehaviorPolice officersCrimePolicía - Relaciones con la comunidad - ColombiaDelincuencia juvenil - ColombiaReforma judicial - ColombiaK14, K42Facultad de EconomíaPublicationTEXTdcede2017-17.pdf.txtdcede2017-17.pdf.txtExtracted texttext/plain77863https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/58e2bbb1-97c9-4b3f-b7b3-cd7dae3918bf/download8ca2bbd0a3c65b3c5f0c8dabb3cedf2bMD54THUMBNAILdcede2017-17.pdf.jpgdcede2017-17.pdf.jpgIM Thumbnailimage/jpeg10814https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/19a4421e-d41f-4b0a-964b-e2e9b7dc4b8a/downloadae06e0e06ba3bebbf10b6e08913602dfMD55ORIGINALdcede2017-17.pdfdcede2017-17.pdfapplication/pdf890852https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/d855d758-0e2a-40c5-8884-b5c6078741ce/download1dfddf961fb4bb18957e3f3aaaa1e935MD511992/8686oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/86862024-06-04 15:27:53.67http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/open.accesshttps://repositorio.uniandes.edu.coRepositorio institucional Sénecaadminrepositorio@uniandes.edu.co |