Theft and deterrence
By: William T. Harbaugh, Naci H. Mocan, Michael S. Visser
Contributors: Mocan, Naci H.; Visser, Michael S. (Michael Scott), 1976-; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17059; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17059.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other.  Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of detection.  We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of money that can be stolen, and that it is decreasing in the probability of getting caught and in the penalty for getting caught.  Furthermore, the impact of the certainty of getting caught is larger when the penalty is bigger, and the impact of the penalty is bigger when the probability of getting caught is larger"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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