Add to ORKGIt is commonly assumed that potential offenders are more responsive to increases in the certainty than increases in the severity of punishment. An important implication of this assumption within the Beckerian law enforcement model is that criminals are risk-seeking. This note adds to existing literature by showing that offenders who discount future monetary benefits can be more responsive to the certainty rather than the severity of punishment, even when they are risk averse, and even when their disutility from imprisonment rises proportionally (or more than proportionally) with the length of the sentence
In the law enforcement literature there is a presumption—supported by some experimental and economet...
Who commits crime? Theoretically, risk-tolerant and impatient people are more likely to commit crime...
Whereas previous analyses of criminal deterrence have focused on the effect of criminal enforcement ...
It is commonly assumed that potential offenders are more responsive to increases in the certainty th...
In the law enforcement literature there is a presumption—supported by some experimental and economet...
A presumption in the law enforcement literature is that potential o¤enders are more responsive to in...
There is a 250-year-old presumption in the criminology and law enforcement literature that people ar...
The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishme...
We show that whatever the representation of criminals' preferences under risk, the assumption accord...
Because criminals discount the future, the deterrence and retributive value of a given criminal sanc...
Listokin has recently drawn our attention to the fact that virtually nothing is known about the magn...
In the late 60s, Gary Becker incorporated into his formal model of deterrence theory an explicit sta...
The probability of being a crime victim, conditional on engaging in risky activity, acts like a tax ...
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...
Who commits crime? Theoretically, risk-tolerant and impatient people are more likely to commit crime...
Whereas previous analyses of criminal deterrence have focused on the effect of criminal enforcement ...
It is commonly assumed that potential offenders are more responsive to increases in the certainty th...
In the law enforcement literature there is a presumption—supported by some experimental and economet...
A presumption in the law enforcement literature is that potential o¤enders are more responsive to in...
There is a 250-year-old presumption in the criminology and law enforcement literature that people ar...
The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishme...
We show that whatever the representation of criminals' preferences under risk, the assumption accord...
Because criminals discount the future, the deterrence and retributive value of a given criminal sanc...
Listokin has recently drawn our attention to the fact that virtually nothing is known about the magn...
In the late 60s, Gary Becker incorporated into his formal model of deterrence theory an explicit sta...
The probability of being a crime victim, conditional on engaging in risky activity, acts like a tax ...
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...
Who commits crime? Theoretically, risk-tolerant and impatient people are more likely to commit crime...
Whereas previous analyses of criminal deterrence have focused on the effect of criminal enforcement ...