Anita Mukherjee talks about how heat affects violent behavior in prisons.
“The Causal Effect of Heat on Violence: Social Implications of Unmitigated Heat Among the Incarcerated” by Anita Mukherjee and Nicholas J. Sanders.
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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:“Interpersonal Violence Associated with Hot Weather” by Rahini Mahendran, Rongbin Xu, Shanshan Li, and Yuming Guo.
“Heat and Violence" by Craig A. Anderson.
“Temper, Temperature, and Temptation: Heat-related Retaliation in Baseball” by Richard P. Larrick, Thomas A. Timmerman, Andrew M. Carton, and Jason Abrevaya.
“The Urban Crime and Heat Gradient in High and Low Poverty Areas” by Kilian Heilmann, Matthew E. Kahn, and Cheng Keat Tang.
“Access to Guns in the Heat of the Moment: The Effect of Gun Laws on Violent Crime” by Jonathan Colmer and Jennifer L. Doleac. [Working paper.]
“Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making Under Thermal Stress” by Ingvild Almas et al. [Working paper.]
“Keep the Kids Inside? Juvenile Curfews and Urban Gun Violence” by Jillian B. Carr and Jennifer L. Doleac.
“Heat, Crime, and Punishment” by A. Patrick Behrer and Valentin Bolotnyy.
Episode 22: Phil Levine on gun exposure and accidental shootings (REBROADCAST)
Episode 35: Erich Muehlegger on air pollution and crime (REBROADCAST)
Episode 79: Jenny Williams on electronic monitoring
Episode 78: Sandip Sukhtankar on Women’s Help Desks in police stations in India
Episode 77: Elizabeth Linos on reducing burnout for 911 dispatchers
Episode 76: Tim Moore on the long-term effects of the crack cocaine epidemic
Episode 75: Panka Bencsik on diversion for drug possession arrests
Episode 74: Bryan Stuart on social connectedness and crime
Episode 73: Danila Serra on ethics training for police in Ghana
Episode 72: Manasi Deshpande on SSI benefits and crime
Bonus episode: Chris Blattman on why we fight
Episode 71: Zoë Cullen on increasing employment for people with criminal records
Episode 70: Pedro Souza on police body-worn cameras
Episode 21: Aurelie Ouss on reducing failures-to-appear in court (REBROADCAST)
Episode 31: Randi Hjalmarsson on jury decision-making (REBROADCAST)
Episode 69: Molly Schnell on school shootings
Bonus episode: Sarah Lageson on digital punishment
Episode 68: Andrew Barr on nutritional assistance in early childhood
Episode 67: David Phillips on mental health care for people released from jail
Episode 66: Aaron Chalfin on what motivates police officers
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