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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 …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … render their criminal identity more salient in their minds. An additional placebo experiment with regular citizens shows that …

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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

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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...

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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

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Low self-control as a source of crime : a meta-study

Engel, Christoph - 2012

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Identity under scrutiny : media attention and rule compliance

Sardoschau, Sulin; Gulino, Giorgio; Masera, Federico - 2025

How does media coverage of minorities affect their rule compliance? Using data from 800,000 random audits at supermarket self-checkouts in Italy, we show that heightened refugee media coverage reduces under-reporting of items among shoppers born in major refugee-source countries, but not other...

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Happiness and beliefs in criminal environments

Di Tella, Rafael (contributor); … - 2008

This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard … work does not pay and that the government should increase the amount of redistribution to the poor. -- Happiness ; crime …

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Holi crimes

Martínez, Claudia; Poblete-Cazenave, Rubén - 2024

A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable portion of such incidents occurring in public spaces. Harmful social norms emphasizing men's power over women have been highlighted as one crucial culprit. We study a public festivity...

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Experimental criminal law : a survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology

Engel, Christoph - 2016

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …

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