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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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Optimizing criminal behavior and the disutility of prison

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2017

We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...

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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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Deterrence works for criminals

Khadjavi, Menusch - 2014

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 … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …

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