explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics, inequity aversion, to offer an explanation. This theory could also …

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably smaller … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …

various strategies of crime control as well as the jurisprudence of punishment. It has also been the key measure for the … legitimacy of crime control and other dispute resolution techniques (Davies et al. 2009). Being a significant component in the …

Governments facing high levels of crime and violence must act through their criminal justice systems to increase safety … society, and (2) reducing the proximate causes of crime. All countries depend on some combination of these two strategies, but … while governments tend to favor the first, the second usually produces greater crime reduction. We show how improving five …