GERRITZEN B., KIRCHGASSNER G., 2013, Facts or Ideology : What Determines the Results of Econometric Estimates of the Deterrence Effect of Death Penalty ? A Meta-Analysis, document de travail disponible sur en prepublication sur Social Science Research Network SSRN....
The deterrent effect regarding the death penalty has not been proven to deter people from murder. The deterrent theory neglects to take into account those with mental illness, crimes of passion, and crimes committed by those who feel they have nothing to lose. What is an example of deterren...
death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually inc.....
It was hard to see what objection there could be to the very neutral statement in the fifth preambular paragraph of the draft resolution that there was no conclusive evidence of the death penalty's deterrent value MultiUn The imposition of a lump sum payment, on the other hand, might be...
Capital punishment also fails to meet the condition of celerity, as the average time a prisoner spends on death row is over twenty years. Perhaps this is the reason statistics fail to prove that the threat of the death penalty actually has a positive effect on crime rates. Some studies sugge...
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only ...
General deterrence ensures the prevention of crime in the general population. Accordingly, when the state punishes offenders serves as an example for the generation population to prevent others from committing that same crime. Such example includes the death penalty and the utilization of corporal ...
like the effect of fog or moonlight - gives to things exaggerated dimensions and an unnatural appearance." would digitization render von clausewitz's famous dictum obsolete? would today's commanders be able to use satellite tracking and computer-equipped soldiers to dispel the fog of war? after ...
Motivated by the potential for antitrust and competition policies to be protectionist in effect, we formulate the theoretical prior that merger policy deters foreign acquirer participation in local M&A markets. The policy risk and policy uncertainty characteristic of merger review may negatively affect fo...
In the immediate aftermath of Gregg, an earlier report of the National Research Council (NRC) reviewed the evidence relating to the deterrent effect of the death penalty that had been gathered through the mid-1970s. That review was highly critical of the earlier research and concluded (National...