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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531835
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277310
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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237753
Low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. The aim of our study is to provide causal evidence on the … antisocial manner and are less risk-averse and thus are, according to both the General Theory of Crime and the economic …-control in a laboratory experiment, we use a wellestablished experimental manipulation, a so-called depletion task. We find that …
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In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
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This paper reports on a lab-in-the-field experiment that investigates differences in rule-violating behavior between …
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-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the …-control is a facilitator of crime. While our study is motivated by the literature on the determinants of criminal behavior, it …
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-faceted self-concept (identity) we conduct an experiment with foreign- and US-born Chinese immigrants at a large US public …
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