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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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Mechanisms for Reducing Criminal Recidivism : Experimental Evidence
DeAngelo, Gregory J.; Charness, Gary; Freeborn, Beth A. - 2011
We conduct laboratory experiments to investigate the effect of deterrence mechanisms on recidivism under controlled conditions. Experimental analysis allows for easier identification of recidivism than the use of empirical or field data. Specifically, we focus on the effect of variation in...
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
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Immoral Criminals? An Experimental Study of Social Preferences Among Prisoners
Birkeland, Sigbjørn - 2011
This paper studies the pro-social preferences of criminals by comparing the behavior of a group of prisoners in a lab experiment with the behavior of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find a striking similarity in the importance the two groups attach to pro-social...
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Selfishness as a Potential Cause of Crime - A Prison Experiment
Chmura, Thorsten - 2013
explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics, inequity aversion, to offer an explanation. This theory could also …
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Peer effects in prison
Johnsen, Julian Vedeler; Khoury, Laura - 2023
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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...
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Selfishness as a potential cause of crime : a prison experiment
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus - 2013
explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics, inequity aversion, to offer an explanation. This theory could also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723560
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384339
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The deterrent effects of prison : evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - In: Journal of political economy 117 (2009) 2, pp. 257-280
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