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Turning 18: What a difference application of adult criminal law makes
Entorf, Horst - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274674
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Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes
Entorf, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804894
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Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction
Entorf, Horst - 2011
police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125473
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Is Being 'Soft on Crime' the Solution to Rising Crime Rates? Evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2021
tests on the effectiveness of police, public prosecution and courts. Using a unique dataset covering German states for the … diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324960
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Crime, prosecutors, and the certainty of conviction
Entorf, Horst - 2011
police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259507
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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? : evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst (contributor); Spengler, Hannes (contributor) - 2008
tests on the effectiveness of police, public prosecution and courts. Using a unique dataset covering German states for the … diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …. -- Econometrics of crime ; evaluation of policy reforms ; panel econometrics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759023
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Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes
Entorf, Horst - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015226285
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Metaanalyse empirischer Abschreckungsstudien Untersuchungsansatz und erste empirische Befunde
Dölling, Dieter; Entorf, Horst; Hermann, Dieter; Rupp, … - 2006
Dieses Papier beschreibt in Grundzügen die Vorgehensweise und erste Ergebnisse einer Meta-Analyse empirischer Arbeiten zur negativen Generalpr ävention. Von vielen hundert Studien aus allen Fach- und Themengebieten wurden zufällig 200 ausgewählt und mittels einer Meta-Analyse ausgewertet....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266880
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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? Evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2008
tests on the effectiveness of police, public prosecution and courts. Using a unique dataset covering German states for the … diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268609
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Ökonometrie der Kriminalität
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - In: ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2005) 16, pp. 13-25
Gemäß der klassischen ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität sollte ein Anstieg der erwarteten Strafe (also des Produktes aus Strafwahrscheinlichkeit und Strafmaß) eine Reduktion der Kriminalität bewirken. In der empirischen Analyse gestaltet sich ein Test dieser Hypothese als äußerst...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011692328