Arbeitspapier
Crime, prosecutors, and the certainty of conviction
This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence suggests that public prosecutors and their influence on the probability of conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small and insignificant.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5670
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Criminal Law
Litigation Process
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
- Thema
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general deterrence
certainty of punishment
public prosecutors
informal punishment
panel data
Kriminalpolitik
Strafverfahren
Wirkungsanalyse
Kriminalität
Schätzung
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Entorf, Horst
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201105173059
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Entorf, Horst
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2011