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Deterrence works for criminals
Khadjavi, Menusch - 2014
Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384339
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Broken Windows Policing and Crime : Evidence from 80 Colombian Cities
Mejia, Daniel; Norza, Ervyn; Tobon, Santiago; … - 2022
We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian cities. Broadly defined, broken windows policing consists of intensifying arrests - sometimes for minor offenses - to deter potential criminals. To estimate causal effects, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082043
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Broken Windows Policing and Crime : Evidence from 80 Colombian Cities
Mejia, Daniel; Norza, Ervyn; Tobon, Santiago; … - 2021
We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian cities. Broadly defined, broken windows policing consists of intensifying arrests—sometimes for minor offenses—to deter potential criminals. To estimate causal effects, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213865
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Is the severity of the penalty an effective deterrent? : a strategic approach for the crime of tax evasion
Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2016
In order to analyze the severity of sentencing, and to show how the probabilistic interpretation of strategic behavior can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any attempts to increase the severity of punishment will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544186
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Optimal law enforcement with sophisticated and naive offenders
Buechel, Berno; Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2018
Research in criminology has shown that the perceived risk of apprehension often differs substantially from the true level. To account for this insight, we extend the standard economic model of law enforcement (Becker, 1968) by considering two types of offenders, sophisticates and naïves. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864423
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Police reorganization and crime : evidence from police station closures
Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2018
Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform substantially reduced the number of police stations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916830
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Black sheep or scapegoats? : implementable monitoring policies under unobservable levels of misbehavior
Buechel, Berno; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2014
An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...
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Do police make too many arrests? : the effect of enforcement pullbacks on crime
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - 2021
Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause significant short-term reductions in all arrest types, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745215
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Crime and (a preference for) punishment : the effects of drug policy reform on policing activity
Soliman, Adam - 2021
We still know very little about the incentives of police, often due to data constraints and the underlying policy environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I am able to shed light on enforcement behavior. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607030
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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 …
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