present a model with predictions consistent with farmers' behavior in Mula: (i) judges trade off crime deterrence and …

their effects on deterrence and punishment policy. Our purpose is to briefly summarize the theoretical literature that …

consequence of the latter. The death penalty may therefore impede criminal deterrence if its finance is left to local, rather than …

imprisonment elasticity of deterrence is small [resp. the marginal cost of public funds is not high]. These conditions hold …

of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …

executions within military units to identify the deterrent effect of executions, with deterrence measured by the elapsed time … within a unit between the resolution of a death sentence (i.e., a commutation or execution) and subsequent absences within …

deterrence by the same amount. We demonstrate that this view is generally incorrect both when the court's error concerns the …-1 error exerts a lesser effect on deterrence than type-2 error. Moreover, we demonstrate that type-1 error may lead a … error, whether or not it is defined as conditional on adjudication, therefore does not exert any direct effect on deterrence …