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CEP discussion paper
Sentencing severity, victim behaviour, and the prevention of domestic violence

Can harsher criminal sanctions reduce violence inside intimate relationships? We study Brazil?s 2015 Femicide Law, which reclassified femicide as a heinous crime and raised expected penalties for gender-based killings. U...Read more...

Rui Costa, Olivia Masi, Beatriz Ribeiro and Matteo Sandi

8 May 2026

CEP discussion paper
Better stealing than dealing: how do felony theft thresholds impact crime?

From 2005 to 2019, forty US states raised the dollar value threshold delineating misdemeanor and felony theft, reducing the expected punishment for a subset of property crimes. Using an event study framework, we observe ...Read more...

Stephen B. Billings, Michael D. Makowsky, Kevin Schnepel and Adam Soliman

24 October 2025