of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across …Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test … the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability …

of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across …Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test … the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability …

alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior. These …This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is … unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible …

several reasons. On the one hand, there are important instances in which punishment is unable to reduce crime or may even … increase it. On the other hand, there are feasible alternatives such as positive incentives for law-abiding behavior. These …

offers, projects to educate people or even monetary incentives, are employed relatively extensively by the health insurers … and incentives are neither evaluated nor compared with one another. Conclusions: The relatively extensive range of …