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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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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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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents

Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the probability and the severity of punishment with reference to planned criminal activities. There are, however, also unplanned crimes and in this paper we focus on a very serious...

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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents

Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019

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Punishment and crime : the impact of felony conviction on criminal activity

Jackson, Osborne - 2020 - This version: October 2019

This paper uses increases in felony larceny thresholds as a negative shock to felony conviction probability to examine the impact of punishment severity on criminal behavior. In the theft value distribution between old and new larceny thresholds ("response region"), higher thresholds cause a 2...

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Measuring organized crime : statistical indicators and economics aspects

Capuano, Carlo; Giacalone, Massimiliano - 2018

One of the most negative factors that characterize Italian economy and society is the pervasive and oppressive presence of organized crime, affecting many aspects of the daily live and every sector of business. The data unfortunately show how this phenomenon is increasingly growing and involves...

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Punishment despite reasonable doubt : a public goods experiment with uncertainty over contributions

Grechenig, Kristoffel; Nicklisch, Andreas; Thöni, Christian - 2010

Under a great variety of legally relevant circumstances, people have to decide whether or not to cooperate, when they face an incentive to defect. The law sometimes provides people with sanctioning mechanisms to enforce pro-social behavior. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good...

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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 - 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 …. -- Punishment ; Deterrence ; Special Prevention ; Jeremy Bentham ; Experiment ; Public Good …

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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery

Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012

tradeoff between deterrence and law enforcement. In a forward-looking perspective, lawmakers must decide which aim carries more …

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Turning 18 : what a difference application of adult criminal law makes

Entorf, Horst - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into …

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