Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/331401 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1536
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We study the effect of prison sentences on recidivism using a unique feature of sentencing for drunk driving in the Swedish court system. Below the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 1.0‰, individuals are never sentenced to prison and above 1.0‰, the average number of days sentenced to prison is essentially linearly increasing with the BAC level. We find that being sentenced to prison for one month reduces reoffending in the next five years by approximately 80 percent.
Subjects: 
Sentence length
Recidivism
DUI
JEL: 
K42
R41
C26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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