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 U.S. state-level panel data for the period 1995 - 2006, this paper fails to find a …

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This … support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …

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 …

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This … support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …

deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically … significant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a significant deterrence effect than …

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This … support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …

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 …

purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available. …

How should we think about crime deterrence in times of pandemics? The economic analysis of crime tells us that … effects on crime deterrence. The paper thus highlights the need to carefully consider which aspects are applicable given the … circumstances of the pandemic, as whether crime deterrence will increase or decrease should depend on the strength of the effects at …