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- Title
ESTIMATING THE ECONOMIC MODEL OF CRIME WITH INDIVIDUAL DATA.
- Authors
Witte, Ann Dryden
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
NORTH Carolina; ECONOMIC models; ECONOMIC statistics; PRISONS; PUNISHMENT; DETENTION of persons
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, Vol 94, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1884604