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 experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared …

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against … form of punishment and decreases theft by excluded members once they are re-admitted into the group. However, it also leads …

inappropriate. More importantly, victims of such abuse also start to believe that punishers' free-riding and punishment are …

Social preferences for the punishment of free riders are critical for generating cooperative behavior in human society …. Focusing on the receiving fees of Japan's public broadcaster, this study analyses how punishment of free riders, that is, the …

We investigate power abuse of a single punisher in a public-goods-game subject to variations in punishment power and …

windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we show that first impressions are indeed causal … punishment; with decentralised punishment qualified by the risk of counterpunishment. In all environments, the effect of first …

less to a joint project; punishment cost is higher; efficiency is lower; inequity is higher. While experimental subjects … themselves do trust the institution less if punishment does not become effective immediately. -- probation ; recidivism ; public … goods ; punishment ; experimental economics …

, even if punishment is costly. However, these studies focus on situations where there is no uncertainty about others …' behavior. We investigate punishment in a world with “reasonable doubt” about others' contributions. Interestingly, people … level of a setting without punishment. Our findings suggest that sufficient information accuracy about others' behavior is …