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At the mercy of the prisoner next door : using an experimental measure of selfishness as a criminological tool
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - 2010
Do criminals maximise money? Are criminals more or less selfish than the average subject? Can prisons apply measures that reduce the degree of selfishness of their inmates? Using a tried and tested tool from experimental economics, we cast new light on these old criminological questions. In a...
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015 - Revised version, May 2015
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519915
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Selfishness as a potential cause of crime : a prison experiment
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus - 2013
expected value of criminal sanctions, i.e. the product of severity times certainty, is often below the expected benefit. We … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming … ; imperfect sanctions ; social proximity ; charity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723560
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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
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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Selfishness as a Potential Cause of Crime - A Prison Experiment
Chmura, Thorsten - 2013
expected value of criminal sanctions, i.e. the product of severity times certainty, is often below the expected benefit. We … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084563
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Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals
Di Tella, Rafael - 2013
We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the United States over the period 1980–2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the ‘‘Reagan revolution'' in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about economic...
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Recent Legislative Measures to Reduce Overcrowding of Prisons in Italy : A Preliminary Assessment of Their Economic Impact
DiVita, Giuseppe - 2020
This paper analyses the effects of two recent reforms introduced in Italy since 2010 in an attempt to reduce prison overcrowding. The first, introduced by the law no. 199 of 2010 on home detention for prisoners with final conviction. The second, passed by the decree law no. 211 of 2011 on home...
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Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines
Sarnikar, Supriya - 2007
The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission's records, we examine...
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