conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small … police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … and insignificant. -- general deterrence ; certainty of punishment ; public prosecutors ; informal punishment ; panel data …

Evidence on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is important for many states that are currently reconsidering … punishment has a strong deterrent effect; each execution results, on average, in 18 fewer murders - with a margin of error of …

diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …, imprisonment) and severity (length of prison sentence, size of fine) of punishment are often small and insignificant …

criminal law instead of juvenile penal law decreases expected recidivism of adolescents. -- crime ; recidivism ; treatment …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

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 …

significance. In other words, crime imposes the costs of prosecution and punishment on the citizens and country, which influences …Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is …, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the …