IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/col/000090/009723.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Conductas violentas y hacinamiento carcelario

Author

Listed:
  • Oscar Barriga

Abstract

Este trabajo analiza las consecuencias del hacinamiento en las cárceles argentinas en el período 2002-2008. Es el primero que aborda el problema en un sistema carcelario latinoamericano; también es el primero en discutir y solucionar problemas de endogenidad en las estimaciones que surgen de la existencia de variables no observadas como el nivel de supervisión de los internos y las condiciones de reclusión. Los resultados muestran que después de resolver los problemas de endogenidad, el hacinamiento tiene un efecto positivo sobre la posesión de objetos prohibidos y las conductas violentas que dejan danos materiales, pero no en los conflictos violentos entre internos, siendo los resultados robustos a diferentes especificaciones. Sin embargo, no es posible identificar si este último resultado se debe a que la administración penitenciaria puede evitar que el hacinamiento desencadene expresiones de violencia entre internos o si los conflictos entre estos tienen raíces más sociológicas. Este es un tema de futura investigación.

Suggested Citation

  • Oscar Barriga, 2012. "Conductas violentas y hacinamiento carcelario," Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, Universidad de los Andes,Facultad de Economía, CEDE, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:col:000090:009723
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://economia.uniandes.edu.co/revistadys/Articulo69_2.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. María Laura Alzúa & Catherine Rodriguez & Edgar Villa, 2010. "The Quality of Life in Prisons: Do Educational Programs Reduce In-Prison Conflicts?," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Crime: Lessons For and From Latin America, pages 239-264, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Tartaro, Christine, 2002. "The impact of density on jail violence," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 30(6), pages 499-510.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Franklin, Travis W. & Franklin, Cortney A. & Pratt, Travis C., 2006. "Examining the empirical relationship between prison crowding and inmate misconduct: A meta-analysis of conflicting research results," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 34(4), pages 401-412.
    2. Victor J. St. John, 2020. "Placial Justice: Restoring Rehabilitation and Correctional Legitimacy Through Architectural Design," SAGE Open, , vol. 10(2), pages 21582440209, May.
    3. Luca Mongelli & Pietro Versari & Francesco Rullani & Antonino Vaccaro, 2018. "Made in Carcere: Integral Human Development in Extreme Conditions," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 152(4), pages 977-995, November.
    4. Rafael Di Tella & Ernesto Schargrodsky, 2013. "Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 121(1), pages 28-73.
    5. Ellison, Jared M. & Cain, Calli M. & Jaegers, Lisa A., 2022. "Just another day's work: The nexus between workplace experiences and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in jail settings," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    6. Caudill, Jonathan W. & Trulson, Chad R. & Marquart, James W. & Patten, Ryan & Thomas, Matthew O. & Anderson, Sally, 2014. "Correctional destabilization and jail violence: The consequences of prison depopulation legislation," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 42(6), pages 500-506.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    conductas violentas; hacinamiento; centros penitenciarios;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • P37 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Legal

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:col:000090:009723. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Universidad De Los Andes-Cede (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ceandco.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.