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An Experimental Test of Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles and Young Adults / Michael S. Visser, William T. Harbaugh, Naci H. Mocan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Visser, Michael S.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12507.
- NBER working paper series no. w12507
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- We report results from economic experiments that provide a direct test of the hypothesis that criminal behavior responds rationally to changes in the possible rewards and in the probability and severity of punishment. The experiments involve decisions that are best described as petty larceny, and are done using high school and college students who can anonymously take real money from each other. We find that decisions about whether and how much to steal are, in general, rational and responsive to the variations in tradeoffs, and sometimes, though not always, to the overall availability of criminal opportunities.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2006.
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