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How do people react to income-based fines? : evidence from speeding tickets discontinuities

Kaila, Martti - 2024

This paper studies the impact of income-based criminal punishments on crime. In Finland, speeding tickets become income-dependent if the driver’s speed exceeds the speeding limit by more than 20 km/h, leading to a substantial jump in the size of the speeding ticket. Contrary to predictions of...

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An Analysis of the Close Links between Corruption and Organized Crime

Buscaglia, Edgardo; Gonzalez Ruiz, Samuel; Prieto, Cesar; … - 2007

This article provides a survey of the causal factors linking public sector corruption and organized crime. The framework of analysis presented has been tested by the authors in a sample of 45 countries worldwide. Moreover, the piece also includes policy prescriptions, founded on best...

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The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment : First Evidence

Clark, Jeremy - 2017

production in a standard voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) experiment. Additionally, the effect of sleep restriction on an … individual's likelihood of sending costly peer punishment is examined. Actigraphy sleep monitoring watches are used to validate …-parametric as well as regression analysis, we find that when punishment is not available, sleep restriction does not affect the …

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The Effect of Prison Sentence Length on Recidivism : Evidence from Random Judicial Assignment

Roach, Michael A - 2016

Whether punishment promotes or deters future criminal activity by the convicted offender is a key public policy concern … networks in prison. On the other hand, greater initial punishment may have a deterrence effect on the individual being punished …

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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? Speeding Fines and Recidivism

Goncalves, Felipe - 2017

, and we instrument the punishment faced by a ticketed driver with the stopping officer's average lenience towards other …

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Shaking criminal incentives

Aoki, Yu; Koutmeridis, Theodore - 2019

theory of crime, value and specialization. We conclude that burglars respond to damages that devaluate their prospective …

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Marginal Deterrence at Work

Crinò, Rosario - 2017

inmates with proxies for maximum punishment and monitoring costs across US states over 50 years. Consistent with the theory of …

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Marginal deterrence at work

Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2017

inmates with proxies for maximum punishment and monitoring costs across US states over 50 years. Consistent with the theory of …

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Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Post-Moratorium Panel Data

Dezhbakhsh, Hashem; Rubin, Paul H.; Shepherd, Joanna M. - 2003

Evidence on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is important for many states that are currently reconsidering … punishment has a strong deterrent effect; each execution results, on average, in 18 fewer murders - with a margin of error of …

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Turning 18 : what a difference application of adult criminal law makes

Entorf, Horst - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...

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