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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … since 1934. We then revisit the existing instrumental variables approaches and assess two recent state-specific execution … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …
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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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Stand your ground laws and homicides
McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152790
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Status-seeking in violent subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance
Dur, Robert A. J. - 2006
This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348346
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Facts or ideology : what determines the results of econometric estimates of the deterrence effect of death penalty? ; a meta-analysis
Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2013
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 … ; deterrence ; econometric evidence ; ideology …
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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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The effect of rehabilitative punishments on juvenile crime and labor market outcomes
Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Mälkönen, Ville - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...
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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J. (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … ; homicide ; crime ; death penalty ; differences-in-differences ; murder ; deterrence … provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274239