the sanctions against criminal activity, or of the taxation of legal incomes, may weaken the social norm against crime … increase in the crime rate. We show that law enforcement policies may have dramatic and permanent efects on the crime rate, and …

This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is … unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible … alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior. These …

several reasons. On the one hand, there are important instances in which punishment is unable to reduce crime or may even …The economics of crime concentrates on policies in the form of punishments. To adopt such a policy is unwise for …

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

für Jugendliche. Die allgemein als gültig angesehene Hypothese, dass die Abschreckungswirkungen von Strafe und …

conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small … police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal …

Gemäß der klassischen ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität sollte ein Anstieg der erwarteten Strafe (also des …

As crime becomes increasingly widespread it may be optimal not to lower but to increase the standard of evidence. Even … though a higher standard of evidence results in a lower expected penalty for all levels of crime, it increases the expected … penalty for high levels of crime relative to the expected penalty for lower levels of crime. Consequently, a high standard of …