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Deterrence works for criminals
Khadjavi, Menusch - 2014
study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This …
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Broken Windows Policing and Crime : Evidence from 80 Colombian Cities
Mejia, Daniel; Norza, Ervyn; Tobon, Santiago; … - 2021
We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian cities. Broadly defined, broken windows policing consists of intensifying arrests—sometimes for minor offenses—to deter potential criminals. To estimate causal effects, we...
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Broken Windows Policing and Crime : Evidence from 80 Colombian Cities
Mejia, Daniel; Norza, Ervyn; Tobon, Santiago; … - 2022
We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian cities. Broadly defined, broken windows policing consists of intensifying arrests - sometimes for minor offenses - to deter potential criminals. To estimate causal effects, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082043
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Is the severity of the penalty an effective deterrent? : a strategic approach for the crime of tax evasion
Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2016
In order to analyze the severity of sentencing, and to show how the probabilistic interpretation of strategic behavior can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any attempts to increase the severity of punishment will...
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Crime and (a preference for) punishment : the effects of drug policy reform on policing activity
Soliman, Adam - 2021
We still know very little about the incentives of police, often due to data constraints and the underlying policy environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I am able to shed light on enforcement behavior. I...
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Do police make too many arrests? : the effect of enforcement pullbacks on crime
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - 2021
Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause significant short-term reductions in all arrest types, with the...
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Police reorganization and crime : evidence from police station closures
Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2018
reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform …
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Salience and the severity versus the certainty of punishment
Mungan, Murat C. - In: International review of law and economics 57 (2019), pp. 95-100
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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police
Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015
Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is 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....
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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure
Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015
Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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