Deterrence and Crime Results

Focused Deterrence Strategies and Crime Control

Research Summary Focused deterrence strategies are increasingly being applied to prevent and control gang and group-involved violence, overt drug markets, and individual repeat offenders. Our updated examination of the effects of focused deterrence strategies on crime followed the systematic review protocols and conventions of the Campbell Collaboration. Twentyfour quasi-experimental evaluation...

Dušek CRIME , DETERRENCE , AND DEMOCRACY CERGE - EI

We provide new evidence on the effect of deterrence on crime using the experience of a transition country (the Czech Republic) as a quasi-natural experiment. The arrival of democracy in 1989 was accompanied by sharp reductions in all measures of deterrence and sharp increases in crime rates. We test whether deterrence, rather than other factors, was responsible for the post-1989 growth in crime...

Crime, Deterrence and Unemployment in Greece: A Panel Data Approach

Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link

Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Understanding Disparate Results

The panel data literature on deterrence and capital punishment contains a wide range of empirical claims despite the use of common data sets for analysis. We interpret the diversity of findings in the literature in terms of differences in statistical model assumptions. Rather than attempt to determine a “best” model from which to draw empirical evidence on deterrence and the death penalty, this...