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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon: The effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available. …
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Econometric estimates of deterrence of the death penalty: Facts or ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011
support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …
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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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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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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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Beware of broken windows! First impressions in public-good experiments
Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009
Broken Windows: the metaphor has changed New York and Los Angeles. Yet it is far from undisputed whether the broken windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we show that first impressions are indeed causal for cooperativeness in three different institutional...
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Juvenile Law and Recidivism in Germany – New Evidence from the Old Continent
Pichler, Stefan; Römer, Daniel - 2011
In this paper, we analyze the effect of the criminal justice system on juvenile recidivism. Using a unique sample of German inmates, we are able to disentangle the selection into criminal and juvenile law from the subsequent recidivism decision of the inmate. We base our identification strategy...
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Beware of broken windows! : first impressions in public-good experiments
Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009
Broken Windows: the metaphor has changed New York and Los Angeles. Yet it is far from undisputed whether the broken windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we show that first impressions are indeed causal for cooperativeness in three different institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862429
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On probation : an experimental analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive. Moreover it struggles with an identification problem: those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905816
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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon : the effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available …. -- Punishment ; Deterrence ; Special Prevention ; Jeremy Bentham ; Experiment ; Public Good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935656