Why longer prison terms fail to serve a specific deterrent effect: an empirical assessment on the remembered severity of imprisonment

For a prison sentence to exert a specific deterrent effect, the ultimate question is that imprisonment is remembered as aversive once the offender is released, and is contemplating future criminal activities. Drawing on insights from social psychology and cognition, this study assessed (1) how inmat...

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1. VerfasserIn: Raaijmakers, Ellen A. C. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Keijser, Jan Willem de 1968- ; Nieuwbeerta, Paul 1964- ; Dirkzwager, Anja J. E.
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [2017]
In: Psychology, crime & law
Jahr: 2017, Band: 23, Heft: 1, Seiten: 32-55
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Specific deterrence
Imprisonment
Memories
Severity
Subjective experience