On the disutility and discounting of imprisonment and the theory of deterrence
By: A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell.
Contributors: Shavell, Steven, 1946-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 6259; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 6259.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Crime prevention -- Mathematical models.; Punishment in crime deterrence -- Mathematical models.
Notes: "November 1997."

JEL no. K14.

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