Why higher punishment may reduce deterrence

Assuming that the willingness to find a potentially innocent defendant guilty is decreasing in punishments, we derive two results: Deterrence is decreasing when punishments are too high, and deterrence maximizing punishments tend to increase in the quality of legal systems.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Feess, Eberhard ; Wohlschlegel, Ansgar
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 104.2009, 2, p. 69-71
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Deterrence

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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