Levitt, Steven D.; Miles, Thomas J. - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 455-495). 2007
identifying the effects of punishment on crime by finding new ways to break the simultaneity of crime rates and punishments. The …This chapter reviews empirical studies of criminal punishment and the criminal justice system by economists. Since the … new empirical evidence generally supports the deterrence model but shows that incapacitation influences crime rates, too …