Add to ORKGStandard models of law enforcement involve the apprehension and punishment of a single suspect, but in many contexts, punishment is actually imposed on an entire group known to contain the offender. The advantages of .group punishment. are that the offender is punished with certainty and detection costs are saved. The disadvantage is that innocent individuals are punished. We compare individual and group punishment when social welfare depends on fairness, and when it depends on deterrence. We show that group punishment may dominate in the former case if the detection technology is ineffective but never in the latter case. We discuss our results in the context of several examples
Social norms pervade almost every aspect of social interaction. If they are violated, not only legal...
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Standard models of law enforcement involve the apprehension and punishment of a single suspect, but ...
<div><p>Because punishments are expected to give offenders what they deserve proportionally to the s...
Because punishments are expected to give offenders what they deserve proportionally to the severity ...
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Social norms pervade almost every aspect of social interaction. If they are violated, not only legal...
We conduct an experiment to examine the role of retribution and deterrence in motivating third party...
Explaining cooperation in groups remains a key problem because reciprocity breaks down between more ...
Standard models of law enforcement involve the apprehension and punishment of a single suspect, but ...
<div><p>Because punishments are expected to give offenders what they deserve proportionally to the s...
Because punishments are expected to give offenders what they deserve proportionally to the severity ...
We examine the link between the penalties used to punish convicted criminals and judicial prejudice ...
Is it rational to reduce criminal activities if punishments are increased? While intuition might sug...
Economic analyses of both crime and regulation writ large suggest that the subjective cost or value ...
Economic theories of punishment focus on determining the levels that provide maximal social material...
The idea that severe penalties effectively deter crime is at the core of theoretical work on crime a...
Punitive behaviours are often assumed to be the result of an instinct for punishment. This instinct ...
Collective action, or the large-scale cooperation in the pursuit of public goods, has been suggested...
Punishment can stabilize costly cooperation and ensure the success of a common project that is threa...
Third party punishment is crucial for sustaining cooperative behavior. Still, little is known about ...
Social norms pervade almost every aspect of social interaction. If they are violated, not only legal...
We conduct an experiment to examine the role of retribution and deterrence in motivating third party...
Explaining cooperation in groups remains a key problem because reciprocity breaks down between more ...