The price of justice: cost neglect increases criminal punishment recommendations

PURPOSE-At what cost to society are we willing to punish criminal offenders, and how does our awareness of those costs impact our support for punitive measures? In a nationally distributed sample of 191 Internet users, we examined the elasticity of punishment in response to information about the dir...

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Authors: Aharoni, Eyal (Author) ; Kleider-Offutt, Heather M. (Author) ; Brosnan, Sarah F. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Legal and criminological psychology
Year: 2020, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-61
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Keywords:
cost/benefit analysis
Deontology
Framing
heuristics and biases
Punishment
Rationality
Sentencing