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Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of cheating correlates with inmates’ offenses against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal identity salience plays a crucial role in rule violating behavior.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5363

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Law and Economics: General
Field Experiments
Criminal Law
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Thema
dishonesty
identity
crime
prison
experiment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cohn, Alain
Maréchal, Michel André
Noll, Thomas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cohn, Alain
  • Maréchal, Michel André
  • Noll, Thomas
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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