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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270435
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347317
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260011
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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 - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633210
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
tradeoff between deterrence and law enforcement. In a forward-looking perspective, lawmakers must decide which aim carries more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286689
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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
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Punishment despite reasonable doubt : a public goods experiment with uncertainty over contributions
Grechenig, Christoffel; Nicklisch, Andreas; Thöni, … - 2010
Under a great variety of legally relevant circumstances, people have to decide whether or not to cooperate, when they face an incentive to defect. The law sometimes provides people with sanctioning mechanisms to enforce pro-social behavior. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952402
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Punishment despite reasonable doubt : a public goods experiment with uncertainty over contributions
Grechenig, Kristoffel; Nicklisch, Andreas; Thöni, Christian - 2010
Under a great variety of legally relevant circumstances, people have to decide whether or not to cooperate, when they face an incentive to defect. The law sometimes provides people with sanctioning mechanisms to enforce pro-social behavior. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738323
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Status-seeking in criminal subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance
Dur, Robert A. J.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2011
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ("zero-tolerance") may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152790
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
tradeoff between deterrence and law enforcement. In a forward-looking perspective, lawmakers must decide which aim carries more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487845