實施「易服社會勞動制度」對犯罪率的影響-以台灣2003年至2014年資料為分析對象

Abstract

台灣自2009年9月1日開始實施易服社會勞動制度，社會勞動是一種提供無酬的勞動或服務，做為刑罰的替代措施(免於入監執行），屬於刑罰的一種易刑處分，主要為避免短期自由刑流弊、紓緩監所擁擠現象。本研究主要利用台灣2003至2014年資料，採用差異中的差異法（Difference In Difference, DID）進行實證研究，探討實施易服社會勞動制度對犯罪率的影響，結果發現實施易服社會勞動制度對部分刑罰較輕之犯罪類型犯罪率有顯著正相關。

The Government to implement Social Labor System from September 1, 2009, is to provide labor or service as a penalty or action for the replacement of penalty (exclusion prison execution), as one kind of alternative penalty. The main purpose of this system is to avoid major Short-Term Imprisonment against freedom abuses, relieve prison overcrowding phenomenon. In this study, employed the panel data from Taiwan 2003 to 2014, and use the difference in differences method (Difference In Difference, DID) to validate and explore the influence of the social labor system on the crime rate.DID results show that this system has a significant positive on some of the lesser punishment of crime rate.