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Punishment menus and their deterrent effects : an exploratory analysis
Grolleau, Gilles; Mungan, Murat C.; Mzoughi, Naoufel - In: European journal of law and economics 58 (2024) 1, pp. 1-19
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Theft and deterrence
Harbaugh, William; Mocan, Naci; Visser, Michael S. - 2011
the penalty is bigger when the probability of getting caught is larger. -- crime ; punishment ; incentives ; deterrence …
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Time preferences and criminal behavior
Åkerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2014
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals discount future events when balancing the immediate utility...
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Theft and Deterrence
Harbaugh, William T. - 2011
We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...
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Behavior in Group Contests : A Review of Experimental Research
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2015
Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries, competition between political parties, team-incentives within firms, group sports, and rent-seeking. In order to succeed, members of the same group have incentives to cooperate with each other by expending individual...
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An experimental test of the deterrence hypothesis
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Strassmair, Christina - 2008
the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability … and within sessions. The across subject analysis clearly rejects the deterrence hypothesis: except for very high levels of … to the deterrence hypothesis and fair-minded subjects for whom deterrent incentives backfire. …
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347317
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Deterrence works for criminals
Khadjavi, Menusch - 2014
survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This …Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384339
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Ambiguity in criminal punishment
Salmon, Tim; Shniderman, Adam - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 163 (2019), pp. 361-376
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