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 …

The main goal of collective punishment (CP) is the deterrence of future "wrong-doing" by freedom fighters or terrorists …

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. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against … form of punishment and decreases theft by excluded members once they are re-admitted into the group. However, it also leads …