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Preventing Crime Through Selective Incapacitation

Vollaard, Ben A. - 2011

Making the length of a prison sentence conditional on an individual's offense history is shown to be a powerful way of preventing crime. Under a law adopted in the Netherlands in 2001, prolific offenders could be sentenced to a prison term that was some ten times longer than usual. We exploit...

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

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

, even if punishment is costly. However, these studies focus on situations where there is no uncertainty about others …' behavior. We investigate punishment in a world with “reasonable doubt” about others' contributions. Interestingly, people … some non-trivial degree of noise, punishment (1) cannot maintain high contributions and (2) reduces welfare even below the …

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Reputation transmission without benefit to the reporter : a behavioral underpinning of markets in experimental focus

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2015 - This version: September 8, 2015

laboratory experiment in which subjects lack any private material incentive to report partners’ actions, we find that most …

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Observed Punishment Spillover Effects : A Laboratory Investigation of Behavior in a Social Dilemma

Dickinson, David L.; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Rodet, Cortney … - 2013

Punishment has been shown to be an effective reinforcement mechanism. Intentional or not, punishment will likely …: the voluntary contributions mechanism. We find that spillovers occur when others observe punishment outside their own … social dilemma. However, the specific effect of these spillovers depends on one’s personal punishment history which …

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Uncertainty and Deterrence : Experimental Evidence

Charness, Gary; DeAngelo, Gregory J. - 2010

effect of the expected cost of punishment of an individual's decision to engage in a proscribed activity and the effect of … speed when the punishment regime for which they voted is implemented. Our results have important implications for a … behavioral theory of deterrence under uncertainty …

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Behavioral Genetics and Crime, in Context

Jones, Owen D. - 2008

This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime. It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on what behavioral genetics can and cannot tell us about criminal behavior. It...

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A Psychology of Emotional Legal Decision Making : Revulsion and Saving Face in Legal Theory and Practice

Huang, Peter H.; Anderson, Christopher J. - 2015

Professor Martha C. Nussbaum is an accomplished scholar in an impressive variety of fields. Drawing on her diverse academic backgrounds, Nussbaum has written extensively about emotions and their importance for law from the perspective of her primary specialty, philosophy. Her book Hiding from...

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A New Synthesis for Law and Emotions : Insights from the Behavioral Sciences

Patrick, Carlton - 2016

The business of the law is to influence human behavior. To do this effectively, lawmakers must make assumptions about human psychology and how people think. While the behavioral sciences dedicate their entire enterprises to investigating these questions, the law, even at its best, incorporates...

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Law and Behavioral Biology

Jones, Owen D.; Goldsmith, Timothy H. - 2022

Society uses law to encourage people to behave differently than they would behave in the absence of law. This fundamental purpose makes law highly dependent on sound understandings of the multiple causes of human behavior. The better those understandings, the better law can achieve social goals...

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Words substitute fists : justifying punishment in a public good experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013

controlled conditions, we have conducted a public goods experiment with central punishment. The authority is neutral - she does … not benefit from contributions to the public good. Punishment is costly. Along with the punishment decisions the authority … writes justifications for her decisions. In the Baseline, authorities are requested to justify punishment decisions, but the …

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