punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or …

severity imposed upon adolescents at age 18 deters violent crime by 10-12%. Results are robust to multiple techniques and … specifications. Using these results, we estimate an elasticity of crime with respect to sanction intensity that ranges from -0.145 to …

of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when …

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 …

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 …

The most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two … purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment … by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared …

We investigate the roles of individual characteristics and punishment progressivity on crime. Our analysis reconciles … low crime rates with light punishments in self-governed communities (Ostrom, 1990), using formal punishments to deter … crime (Becker, 1968). We use a novel trial dataset on water stealing from a self-governed community in Mula, Spain. We …

deterred absences, while executing Irish soldiers, regardless of the crime, spurred absences, particularly Irish absences. I …