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Beware of broken windows! First impressions in public-good experiments
Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009
windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we show that first impressions are indeed causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267001
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Beware of broken windows! : first impressions in public-good experiments
Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009
windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we show that first impressions are indeed causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862429
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On probation : an experimental analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive. Moreover it struggles with an identification problem: those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905816
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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon : the effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010
The most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment by manipulating how much information on punishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935656
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Poverty and crime in 19th century Germany: A reassessment
Traxler, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - 2010
effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286684
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Poverty and crime in 19th century Germany : a reassessment
Traxler, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - 2010
effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662611
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Low self-control as a source of crime : a meta-study
Engel, Christoph - 2012
theory of crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503888
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The state's enforcement monopoly and the private protection of property
Grechenig, Kristoffel; Kolmar, Martin - 2011
The modern state has monopolized the legitimate use of force. This concept is twofold. First, the state is empowered with enforcement rights; second, the rights of the individuals are (partly) restricted. In a simple model of property rights with appropriation and defense activity, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312554
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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon: The effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010
The most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment by manipulating how much information on punishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270435
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Experimental criminal law : a survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455955