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Eine panelökonometrische Evaluation des deutschen Strafverfolgungssystems

Spengler, Hannes - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 226 (2006) 6, pp. 687-714

of punishment - results in a reduction of crime due to deterrence. What appears to be a simple and straightforward … makes a difference whether offenders are subject to general of juvenile criminal law. Usually, empirical analyses of crime/deterrence … indicators of form and size of punishment the estimation results suggest that deterrence is mainly exerted at the initial levels …

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Rewards versus imprisonment : the impact of choice

Mungan, Murat C. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 18 (2022) 1, pp. 69-83

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Inducing corporate compliance: A compound corporate liability regime

Oded, Sharon - In: International Review of Law and Economics 31 (2011) 4, pp. 272-283

Corporate liability regimes have two major social goals: (i) inducing corporations to internalize all social ramifications of their activity; and (ii) inducing corporations to prevent, deter, and report their employee misconduct. The scholarly polemic has shown that none of the liability regimes...

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Criminal registries, community notification, and optimal avoidance

Simundza, Daniel - In: International Review of Law and Economics 39 (2014) C, pp. 73-82

This paper studies how community notification of criminal registries affects neighborhood behavior and shows that notification is not always optimal. Using a game-theoretic model of a neighborhood, I establish optimal information disclosure policies when law-abiding neighbors’ actions generate...

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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

Donohue, John J; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...

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Chapter 6 The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 403-454). 2007

costs of imposing fines; general enforcement; marginal deterrence; the principal-agent relationship; settlements; self …

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Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Kilmer, Beau - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent,...

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A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation

Gan, Li; Williams, Roberton C. Williams III; Wiseman, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate...

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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...

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