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of punishment - results in a reduction of crime due to deterrence. What appears to be a simple and straightforward … makes a difference whether offenders are subject to general of juvenile criminal law. Usually, empirical analyses of crime/deterrence … indicators of form and size of punishment the estimation results suggest that deterrence is mainly exerted at the initial levels …
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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 überschaubar anmutenden...
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support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …
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support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …
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There is a question whether the execution rate is appropriate to examine the deterrent effect of death penalty. Instead of using execution rate, this paper uses dummy variables to categorize states into different groups and to compare the group mean homicide rates. With US state-level panel data...
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Sanctions are often so weak that a money maximizing individual would not be deterred. In this paper I show that they may nonetheless serve a forward looking purpose if sufficiently many individuals are averse against advantageous inequity. Using the Fehr/Schmidt model (QJE 1999) I define three...
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We provide new evidence on the effect of deterrence on crime using the experience of a transition country (the Czech … of deterrence and sharp increases in crime rates. We test whether deterrence, rather than other factors, was responsible … for the post-1989 growth in crime on a panel dataset of Czech regions. The results show significant deterrence effects for …
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deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically sig …- nificant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a sig- nificant deterrence effect than …
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able to emerge to internalize the externalities that caused the private system to generate too little deterrence. The model …
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This paper investigates the impact of three age thresholds in British criminal law on self-reported offending: the possibility of custody at age 15, the switch from juvenile to adult law at age 18 and the switch from young offender institutions to adult prisons at age 21. Using longitudinal data...
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