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explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics, inequity aversion, to offer an explanation. This theory could also …
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explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics, inequity aversion, to offer an explanation. This theory could also …
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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...
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We study the consequences of leniency - reduced legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously self-report to law enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions, such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is known that leniency helps deterring illegal...
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