A presumption in the law enforcement literature is that potential o¤enders are more responsive to increases in the certainty than increases in the severity of punishment. This presumption dates back at least 250 years to Beccarias inuential work,1 and appears to be endorsed by scholars of law as well as eco
Empirical studies have shown, paradoxically, that increasing the probability of apprehension can cor...
Legal scholarship, following rational-choice theory, has traditionally treated uncertainty as a sing...
The empirical literature on deterrence tends to find stronger and more consistent evidence in suppor...
It is commonly assumed that potential offenders are more responsive to increases in the certainty th...
There is a 250 year old presumption in the criminology and law enforcement literature that people ar...
Abstract. In the late 60s, Gary Becker incorporated into his formal model of deterrence theory an ex...
A common presumption, supported by some empirical evidence, is that the certainty of punishment is a...
In the law enforcement literature there is a presumption—supported by some experimental and economet...
The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishme...
Criminal sanctions are usually public, stable and predictable. In contrast, the practices governing...
We show that whatever the representation of criminals' preferences under risk, the assumption accord...
Deterrence theorists and researchers have argued that the critical dimension of sanction certainty ...
In the law enforcement literature there is a presumption—supported by some experimental and economet...
In the late 60s, Gary Becker incorporated into his formal model of deterrence theory an explicit sta...
A behavioral economics literature identifies how behaviorally-derived assumptions affect the economi...
Empirical studies have shown, paradoxically, that increasing the probability of apprehension can cor...
Legal scholarship, following rational-choice theory, has traditionally treated uncertainty as a sing...
The empirical literature on deterrence tends to find stronger and more consistent evidence in suppor...
It is commonly assumed that potential offenders are more responsive to increases in the certainty th...
There is a 250 year old presumption in the criminology and law enforcement literature that people ar...
Abstract. In the late 60s, Gary Becker incorporated into his formal model of deterrence theory an ex...
A common presumption, supported by some empirical evidence, is that the certainty of punishment is a...
In the law enforcement literature there is a presumption—supported by some experimental and economet...
The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishme...
Criminal sanctions are usually public, stable and predictable. In contrast, the practices governing...
We show that whatever the representation of criminals' preferences under risk, the assumption accord...
Deterrence theorists and researchers have argued that the critical dimension of sanction certainty ...
In the law enforcement literature there is a presumption—supported by some experimental and economet...
In the late 60s, Gary Becker incorporated into his formal model of deterrence theory an explicit sta...
A behavioral economics literature identifies how behaviorally-derived assumptions affect the economi...
Empirical studies have shown, paradoxically, that increasing the probability of apprehension can cor...
Legal scholarship, following rational-choice theory, has traditionally treated uncertainty as a sing...
The empirical literature on deterrence tends to find stronger and more consistent evidence in suppor...