Deterrence and the Adjustment of Sentences During Imprisonment
| Autor: | A Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | American Law and Economics Review. 23:481-519 |
| ISSN: | 1465-7260 1465-7252 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/aler/ahab004 |
| Popis: | The prison time actually served by a convicted criminal depends to a significant degree on decisions made by the state during the course of imprisonment—notably, on whether to grant parole. We study a model of the adjustment of sentences assuming that the state’s objective is the optimal deterrence of crime. In the model, the state can lower or raise a criminal’s initial sentence on the basis of deterrence-relevant information obtained during imprisonment. Our focus on sentence adjustment as a means of promoting deterrence stands in contrast to the usual emphasis in sentence adjustment policy on avoiding recidivism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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