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Estimating the Economic Model of Crime with Individual Data

Witte, Ann Dryden·1980·The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DOI 10.2307/1884604
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The paper develops a variant of the economic model of crime. The model developed is estimated using information on the post-release activities of a sample of men released from the North Carolina prison system. Both the expected certainty and severity of punishment are found to deter criminal activity in a number of instances and a 1 percent increase in certainty is generally found to have a greater effect than a similar increase in severity. Certainty of punishment is found to have a greater effect for relatively minor offenders and severity for persons offenders. While higher legal wages are found to deter, their effect is quite weak.

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Authors
Witte, A. D.
Venue
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1980-02
Volume
94
Issue
1
Pages
57
ISSN
0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/1884604
OpenAlex
W2075426298
Cited by
320
References
9
FWCI
22.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
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