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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany: evidence from panel data of the German states

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998

Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

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Prison conditions and recidivism

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - 2008

We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...

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Crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece: a panel data approach

Saridakis, George; Spengler, Hannes - 2009

This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional …

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Crime prevention effects of data retention policies

Maennig, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Stefan - 2023

Adding to the extensive political and legal debates on data retention, this is the first study to analyse the impacts of data retention on crime prevention in Europe. Using an estimator that captures dynamic effects and is robust to heterogeneous treatment effects, we find a significant negative...

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Deterrence works for criminals

Khadjavi, Menusch - 2014

Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …

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Criminals on the Field: A Study of College Football

Janhuba, Radek; Cechova, Kristyna - 2017

incorporate this increase into their decision making process and thus may commit less crimes, constituting the deterrence effect … evidence for the presence of the deterrence effect in the case of penalties with severe punishment and committed by teams with …

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Status concerns as a motive for crime?

Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2013

This paper analyzes the implications of potential offenders caring about their relative status. We establish that subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a...

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Trade-offs in the allocation of prosecution resources : an opportunity cost of overcriminalization

Kim, Duol; Kim, Il-joong - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 16/18, pp. 1652-1669

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Criminal registries, community notification, and optimal avoidance

Simundza, Daniel - In: International review of law and economics 39 (2014), pp. 73-82

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Discounting and criminals' implied risk preferences

Mungan, Murat C.; Klick, Jonathan - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 11 (2015) 1, pp. 19-23

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