feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …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 …

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 …

feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior … to a large extent law abiding, they are more motivated to observe the law. -- crime ; punishment ; incentives … ; motivation ; framing ; broken window theory …

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

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 …

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 …

We study criminal incentives exploiting the devastating shock of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Evidence shows that the … theory of crime, value and specialization. We conclude that burglars respond to damages that devaluate their prospective …