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Status-seeking in criminal subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance

Dur, Robert; van der Weele, Joël - 2011

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers for...

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A model of overconfidence

Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2009

People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their perception of their own ability will choose tasks that are not sufficiently challenging. Overestimation...

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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various …

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Turning 18: What a difference application of adult criminal law makes

Entorf, Horst - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...

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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory

Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015

of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects … hypotheses derived from the theory. …

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Stay or Flee? Probability versus Severity of Punishment in Hit-And-Run Accidents

Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019

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 …

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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...

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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Punishing Free-Riders : How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2004

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is … rates no lower than small groups because punishment does not fall appreciably in large groups. However, hindrances to …

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Certainty and severity of sanctions in classical and behavioral models of deterrence: A survey

Entorf, Horst - 2012

This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical … findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological …

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