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The impact of fine size and uncertainty on punishment and deterrence : theory and evidence from the laboratory
Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015
of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …
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Rewards versus imprisonment : the impact of choice
Mungan, Murat C. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 18 (2022) 1, pp. 69-83
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Crime prevention effects of data retention policies
Maennig, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Stefan - 2023 - Version: October 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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Punishment and crime : the impact of felony conviction on criminal activity
Jackson, Osborne - 2020 - This version: October 2019
This paper uses increases in felony larceny thresholds as a negative shock to felony conviction probability to examine the impact of punishment severity on criminal behavior. In the theft value distribution between old and new larceny thresholds ("response region"), higher thresholds cause a 2...
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Measuring organized crime : statistical indicators and economics aspects
Capuano, Carlo; Giacalone, Massimiliano - 2018
One of the most negative factors that characterize Italian economy and society is the pervasive and oppressive presence of organized crime, affecting many aspects of the daily live and every sector of business. The data unfortunately show how this phenomenon is increasingly growing and involves...
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The effects of punishment of crime in Colombia on deterrence, incapacitation, and human capital formation
Guarin, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - 2013
property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found on non-index crimes, specifically those related to drug consumption and … immediately after reaching 18 implies future differences in human capital formation. These results suggest a specific deterrence …
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Econometric estimates of deterrence of the death penalty : facts or ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011
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 … arguments in policy debates, but also on the moral questions involved in this particular debate. -- death penalty ; deterrence …
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Status-seeking in criminal subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance
Dur, Robert A. J.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2011
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ("zero-tolerance") may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
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The Effect of Type-1 Error on Deterrence
Lando, Henrik - 2020
deterrence by the same amount. We demonstrate that this view is generally incorrect both when the court's error concerns the …-1 error exerts a lesser effect on deterrence than type-2 error. Moreover, we demonstrate that type-1 error may lead a … error, whether or not it is defined as conditional on adjudication, therefore does not exert any direct effect on deterrence …
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The US Crime Puzzle : A Comparative Perspective on US Crime & Punishment
Spamann, Holger - 2015
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...
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