Do legal origins affect cross-country incarceration rates?
We aim to explain how legal origins shape outcomes for criminal punishment. * Incarceration as a means of social control varies tremendously across countries. * Legal origins alter the relative costs and benefits associated with imprisonment. * Countries with civil legal origins have lower prison populations. * Bureaucracy is a cheaper alternative to imprisonment in civil law countries. Prison populations vary tremendously across countries. This paper investigates the potential relationship between incarceration rates and legal origins in a large cross-section of countries. We argue that legal... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Journal of comparative economics |
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Amsterdam,
Elsevier
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Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0147-5967 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | doi: 10.1016/j.jce.2014.11.002 |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-1965001513 |
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Datenquelle: | Online Contents Benelux; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2014.11.002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2014.11.002 |