Identifying Criminals’ Risk Preferences

There is a 250-year-old presumption in the criminology and law enforcement literature that people are deterred more by increases in the certainty rather than increases in the severity of legal sanctions. We call this presumption the Certainty Aversion Presumption (CAP). Simple criminal decision-maki...

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1. VerfasserIn: Klick, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Mungan, Murat C
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2016
In:Jahr: 2016
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