Crime, punishment, and myopia /
"Economic theory predicts that increasing the severity of punishments will deter criminal behavior by raising the expected price of committing crime. This implicit price can be substantially raised by making prison sentences longer, but only if offenders' discount rates are relatively low...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
National Bureau of Economic Research,
2005
Cambridge, Mass. : c2005 |
| Series: | Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ;
working paper no. 11491 |
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Internet
This item is not available through BorrowDirect. Please contact your institution’s interlibrary loan office for further assistance.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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H11.N27534 no.11491 |
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Cornell University
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HB1 .N33 no.11491 |
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