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Criminal registries, community notification, and optimal avoidance

Simundza, Daniel - In: International Review of Law and Economics 39 (2014) C, pp. 73-82

This paper studies how community notification of criminal registries affects neighborhood behavior and shows that notification is not always optimal. Using a game-theoretic model of a neighborhood, I establish optimal information disclosure policies when law-abiding neighbors’ actions generate...

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Deterrence and Incapacitation Models of Criminal Punishment: Can the Twain Meet?

Miceli, Thomas - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2009

The standard economic model of crime focuses on the goal of deterrence, but actual punishment schemes, most notably … combines the deterrence and incapacitation motives for criminal punishment. The resulting hybrid model retains the rationality … assumption that is the basis of the pure deterrence model, but assumes that offenders face repeated criminal opportunities over …

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Crime, Deterrence, and Democracy

Dusek, Libor - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2005

We provide new evidence on the effect of deterrence on crime using the experience of a transition country (the Czech … of deterrence and sharp increases in crime rates. We test whether deterrence, rather than other factors, was responsible … for the post-1989 growth in crime on a panel dataset of Czech regions. The results show significant deterrence effects for …

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Turning the Lab into Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. The Effect of Punishment on Offenders and Non-Offenders

Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010

purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available. …

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Deterrence by Imperfect Sanctions – A Public Good Experiment

Engel, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013

Sanctions are often so weak that a money maximizing individual would not be deterred. In this paper I show that they may nonetheless serve a forward looking purpose if sufficiently many individuals are averse against advantageous inequity. Using the Fehr/Schmidt model (QJE 1999) I define three...

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Crime prevention effects of data retention policies

Maennig, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Stefan - 2023 - Version: October 2023

Adding to the extensive political and legal debates on data retention, this is the first study to analyse the impacts of data retention on crime prevention in Europe. Using an estimator that captures dynamic effects and is robust to heterogeneous treatment effects, we find a significant negative...

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Rough set methodology in meta-analysis - a comparative and exploratory analysis

Rupp, Thomas - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2005

We study the applicability of the pattern recognition methodology "rough set data analysis" (RSDA) in the field of meta analysis. We give a summary of the mathematical and statistical background and then proceed to an application of the theory to a meta analysis of empirical studies dealing with...

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Eine panelökonometrische Überprüfung der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität mit deutschen Bundesländerdaten

Spengler, Hannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

punishment) results in a reduction of crime due to deterrence. What appears to be a simple and straightforward hypotheses turns … makes a difference whether offenders are subject to general or juvenile criminal law. Usually, empirical analyses of crime/deterrence … indicators of type and "quantity" of punishment the estimation results suggest that deterrence is mainly exerted at the initial …

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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive

Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2008

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

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Factores socioeconómicos y demográficos de distintas categorías de delitos en Colombia. Prueba desde un panel de datos de las regiones de Colombia

Mancera, Alejandro - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL CARIBE (2008)

rate like: the deterrence variable or rate of efficiency of the Police, that it was built as the reason of the number of … legal and illegal income, the poverty and the forced displacement affect the homicide crimes, kidnapping and terrorism. The …

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