Birkeland, Sigbjørn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; … - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2011
This paper studies the pro-social preferences of criminals by comparing the behavior of a group of prisoners in a lab experiment with the behavior of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find a striking similarity in the importance the two groups attach to pro-social...