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Indirect effects of a policy altering criminal behaviour : evidence from the Italian prison experiment

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2010

We exploit the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006 to evaluate the indirect effects of a policy that randomly commutes actual sentences to expected sentences for 40 percent of the Italian prison population. We estimate the direct and indirect impact of the...

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Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour : Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment

Drago, Francesco - 2011

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Ordered leniency : an experimental study of law enforcement with self-reporting

Landeo, Claudia; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2018

This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an enforcement agency to detect and deter harmful short-term activities committed by groups of injurers. With ordered-leniency policies, early cooperators receive reduced sanctions. We replicate the strategic...

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Honor Among Thieves : Enforcing Criminal Contracts

Pi, Daniel - 2022

Contracts involving promises to commit criminal acts are ordinarily unenforceable. Yet nonenforcement does not fully deter incentives to form criminal agreements. This Article demonstrates that partial enforcement can generate greater deterrence incentives by disrupting the trust relationship...

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Experimental criminal law : a survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology

Engel, Christoph - 2016

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …

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An economic assessment of criminal behaviour

Cain, Michael - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 12 (2016) 1, pp. 77-94

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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

evidence on punishment preferences, in which subjects reveal a heterogeneous preference for punishing wrongdoers, our model … identifies circumstances in which “punitive” individuals (with stronger-than-average punishment preferences) will self …-select into law enforcement jobs that offer the opportunity to punish (or facilitate the punishment of) wrongdoers. Such “punitive …

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Crime and (a preference for) punishment : the effects of drug policy reform on policing activity

Soliman, Adam - 2021

environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and … punishment and suggests that certain types enforcement can be reduced without incurring large public safety costs …

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Is a "bad individual" more condemnable than several "bad individuals"? : examining the scope-severity paradox

Grolleau, Gilles; Ibanez-Hafkamp, Lisette; Mzoughi, Naoufel - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 16 (2020) 3, pp. 1-18

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Punishment severity and crime : the case of Arkansas

Barati, Mehdi - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 15 (2019) 1, pp. 1-23

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