This paper compares actual US crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions. Global … cross-country regressions of crime and incarceration on background characteristics explain much of the variation between … other countries. But the estimated models predict only one-fourth of US incarceration and not all of US crime. The …

less complex crimes that are normally committed by individuals who can easily be linked to the crime. Due to this empirical … or criminological fact, it seems logical that the normal modes of liability for parties to a crime used in domestic … general concept of parties to a crime in domestic criminal law. On the other hand, the author argues that abandoning the idea …

punishment for criminals. We know from previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic … their luck in the labor market, the expected punishment, and an individual shock that we call quot;meannessquot;. It is this … meanness level that a penal system based on quot;retributionquot; tries to detect when deciding the severity of the punishment …