At European level crime among children represents a contemporary issue and in Romania, the philosophy of the new penal … code approved by Law No 286/2009 is shaped around punishment. Prevention policy in Romania and juvenile justice objectives …

may actually lead to the paradoxical result that more severe punishment for crime induces more crime. The law has … punishment of avoidance may induce more avoidance and more crime. The intuitive reason for the latter result is twofold: ex post … punishment of avoidance increases not only the costs but also the benefits of avoidance; and avoidance and crime are generally …

This paper argues that the ?Economics of Crime? concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several … feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …

This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several … feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …

that humans show both kinds of bounded rationality in the strategic situation of crime, control and punishment. We conclude … inspections and do not affect crime rates. We present two laboratory experiments, which challenge this perspective by … demonstrating that both, criminals and inspectors, are affected by punishment levels. Thereupon, we investigate with agent …

when there is no limit to the size of the punishment that can be imposed, it is not possible to deter all crime. There is a …We consider a model of crime with rational Bayesian Jurors. We find that if jurors are not perfectly informed, even … finite lower bound on the crime rate which results from the difficulties in achieving a conviction with imperfect evidence …