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dc.contributor.authorEngel, Christophen
dc.contributor.authorIrlenbusch, Bernden
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-26-
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-18T11:11:08Z-
dc.date.available2010-08-18T11:11:08Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/38859-
dc.description.abstractThe most famous element in Bentham's theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared with the tone that Jeremy Bentham set, our results are non-expected: If would-be offenders learn about contributions and punishment of others at the individual level, they contribute much less to the public project. Our results confirm the special prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aPreprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods |x2010,06en
dc.subject.jelC91en
dc.subject.jelH41en
dc.subject.jelK14en
dc.subject.jelK42en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPunishmenten
dc.subject.keywordDeterrenceen
dc.subject.keywordSpecial Preventionen
dc.subject.keywordJeremy Benthamen
dc.subject.keywordExperimenten
dc.subject.keywordPublic Gooden
dc.subject.stwStrafeen
dc.subject.stwKriminalpolitiken
dc.subject.stwInformationsverbreitungen
dc.subject.stwÖffentliches Guten
dc.subject.stwTrittbrettfahrerverhaltenen
dc.subject.stwTesten
dc.titleTurning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon: The effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn619961848en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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