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Deterrence or backlash? : arrests and the dynamics of domestic violence
Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023
period during a volatile, at-risk time. In the longer run, we estimate a sizeable deterrence effect. Substantiating this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013486081
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Socially optimal crime and punishment
Ferraz, Eduardo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2022
cost of punishment (determined from the probability of apprehension, the utility cost of incarceration, and reduced future …
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Survey evidence on conditional norm enforcement
Traxler, Christian; Winter, Joachim - 2009
We discuss survey evidence on individuals' willingness to sanction norm violations - such as evading taxes, drunk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951697
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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...
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Black sheep or scapegoats? : implementable monitoring policies under unobservable levels of misbehavior
Buechel, Berno; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2014
An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...
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The effect of inspector group size and familiarity on enforcement and deterrence
Muehlenbachs, Lucija A.; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - 2013
the offender impose less severe sanctions. We only find weak evidence that increasing sanction severity deters incidents …
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Optimal leniency programs when firms have cumulative and asymmetric evidence
Blatter, Marc; Emons, Winand; Sticher, Silvio - 2014
An antitrust authority deters collusion using fines and a leniency program. Unlike in most of the earlier literature, our firms have imperfect cumulative evidence of the collusion. That is, cartel conviction is not automatic if one firm reports: reporting makes conviction only more likely, the...
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Punishment : and beyond
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
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 alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …
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Survey evidence on conditional norm enforcement
Traxler, Christian; Winter, Joachim - 2009
We discuss survey evidence on individuals' willingness to sanction norm violations such as evading taxes, drunk driving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862060
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Tax evasion and economic crime : empirical evidence for Italy
Argentiero, Amedeo; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2015
This paper examines the impact of tax evasion on criminal activities in Italy. Precisely, we consider three types of crime particularly related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robberies, thefts and car thefts), frauds and usury. By using annual data for the Italian provinces...
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