强制性最低刑期及其对刑期分布的影响:加拿大的证据

IF 1.3 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Canadian Journal of Economics-Revue Canadienne D Economique Pub Date : 2023-11-12 DOI:10.1111/caje.12696
Jeffrey Penney, Steven Lehrer, Emilia Galan
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是赋予法官和检察官充分的量刑自由裁量权,还是强制规定最低刑期,这仍然是一个争论激烈的话题。在本文中,我们利用包含 2003 年至 2007 年间发生的针对儿童的性犯罪和儿童色情制品犯罪的行政数据,研究了加拿大 2005 年引入针对儿童的性犯罪和儿童色情制品犯罪的最低刑期对刑期分布的影响。我们发现,受影响犯罪的平均刑期增加幅度有时大大超过新规定的最低刑期,该政策的影响甚至出现在量刑分布的中上部分。这些增加在政策改变后立即出现,表明法官和检察官在强制最低刑期实施后迅速改变了他们的量刑行为。这些刑期的延长对最低刑期政策财政成本的估算具有重要影响。
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Mandatory minimum sentencing and its effect on sentencing distributions: Evidence from Canada

Whether judges and prosecutors should be given full discretionary power in sentencing or mandatory minimum sentences be imposed remains a fiercely debated topic. In this paper, we examine the impact of Canada's 2005 introduction of minimum sentences on sexual offences against children and child pornography on the distribution of sentence lengths using administrative data containing the universe of these offences that occurred between 2003 and 2007. We find that the average sentence length for affected crimes at times increased by substantially more than the newly imposed minimum, and effects of the policy appear even in the middle and upper portions of the sentencing distribution. These increases occur immediately following the policy change, signalling that judges and prosecutors quickly change their sentencing behaviour after the implementation of mandatory minimum sentences. These lengthier sentences have significant implications for the estimation of the fiscal costs of minimum sentencing policies.

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期刊介绍: The Canadian Journal of Economics (CJE) is the journal of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) and is the primary academic economics journal based in Canada. The editors seek to maintain and enhance the position of the CJE as a major, internationally recognized journal and are very receptive to high-quality papers on any economics topic from any source. In addition, the editors recognize the Journal"s role as an important outlet for high-quality empirical papers about the Canadian economy and about Canadian policy issues.
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